Flora of North America species comparison

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

ascending, green, becoming tan, glabrous or puberulent.

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;

sessile;

blades usually 5-nerved, linear to narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, 7–80 × 1–12 mm, flat, margins often ciliolate, apices attenuate to spinulose, faces glabrous or scabrellous.

turbinate, 6–10 × 3–4 mm.

obconic to subcylindric, 6.5–12 × 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).

10–16(–20);

corollas 5.5–8 mm, lobes 1.5–2.3 mm;

style branches 2.8–3.7 mm, appendages 1.4–1.9 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.

50–60+ in 5–6(–7) series, ± in spirals, tan, midnerves greenish to brown, raised, ± expanded apically, oblong to elliptic, 1–8.5 × 1–2 mm, unequal, mostly chartaceous, apices acute to rounded, erect, ± thickened, faces glabrous, not resinous.

in densely cymiform arrays, often overtopped by distal leaves.

in usually cymiform to corymbiform, rarely racemiform arrays, not overtopped by distal leaves.

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

pappi tan, 5–7 mm.

reddish brown, cylindric, 4–6 mm, ± 4-angled, faces hairy;

pappi tan, 6–7.5 mm.

= 18.

= 18 (as Haplopappus scopulorum).