Flora of North America species comparison

ascending, green, sparsely to densely puberulent, sparsely glandular.

erect, green becoming whitish, glabrous, ± resinous.

ascending to spreading;

sessile;

blades with faint midnerves and pair of collaterals, narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 10–30 × 0.7–1.2 mm, flat to sulcate, apices acute (often apiculate), faces moderately puberulent, sparsely stipitate-glandular.

ascending to spreading; petiolate;

blades mostly 3-nerved (nerves reticulate, raised), elliptic to oblanceolate or obovate, 20–80 × (7–)10–25 mm (mostly larger basally, ± reduced distally), flat, apices acute, faces glabrous, gland-dotted.

turbinate, 6–10 × 3–4 mm.

cylindric to turbinate, 6.5–8.8 × 1.8–2.5 mm.

2–3(–4);

corollas 5.5–8 mm, lobes 1–1.7 mm;

style branches 2–2.7(–3.4) mm (included in or barely surpassing spreading corolla lobes), appendages 0.8–1.4 mm (lengths about equaling stigmatic portion).

5(–6);

corollas 4–5 mm, lobes 0.8–1.2 mm;

style branches 2.2–2.7 mm, appendages 0.8–1.2 mm.

(12–)14–18 in 3–4 series, ± in vertical ranks, mostly tan, sometimes green-tipped, ovate or oblong to elliptic, unequal, 2.5–7.5 × 1–1.8 mm, chartaceous, outer ± herbaceous wholly or distally, weakly keeled, midveins faint, apices acute to obtuse, faces sparsely puberulent.

19–24(–30) in 3–4 series, in vertical ranks, tan with apical green spot, midnerves evident distally, ovate to lanceolate, 1.5–6 × 0.7–1.5 mm, unequal, chartaceous, apices obtuse to acuminate, flat, faces glabrous.

in densely cymiform arrays, often overtopped by distal leaves.

in condensed, cymiform arrays, not overtopped by leaves.

reddish brown, turbinate, 4–6 mm, densely hairy;

pappi tan, 5–7 mm.

cylindric, 2.5–3 mm, faces hairy;

pappi tan, 3.1–3.9 mm.

= 18.

= 18.