Flora of North America species comparison

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

ascending, green, ± puberulent, stipitate-glandular.

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.

erect to closely ascending;

sessile;

blades with ± evident midnerves, linear to narrowly elliptic, 7–20 × 0.7–1.5 mm, sulcate, sometimes apiculate, apices acute, faces moderately puberulent, uniformly stipitate-glandular.

turbinate, 6–10 × 3–4 mm.

subcylindric, 9–11 × 2.5–3.5 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;

corollas 5.5–7.5 mm, lobes 0.9–1.5 mm;

style branches 2.7–3.2 mm, appendages 1–1.7 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.

± 20 in 4–5 series, in 4–5 strong vertical ranks, tan, often with green or dark subapical splotch, midnerves often obscure, linear or lanceolate to elliptic, 2–9 × 0.5–1.3 mm, unequal, outer ± herbaceous, inner chartaceous, strongly keeled, apices acute to rounded, tip cupped, faces of outer glabrous or puberulent.

in densely cymiform arrays, often overtopped by distal leaves.

in small cymiform to racemiform arrays.

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

pappi tan, 5–7 mm.

tan, elliptic, 4.2–6 mm, mostly 5-ribbed, faces glabrous, sparsely glandular;

pappi tan, 6–7.5 mm.

= 18.

= 18.