Flora of North America species comparison

ascending, green, ± puberulent, 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.

subcylindric, 9–11 × 2.5–3.5 mm.

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.

± 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 small cymiform to racemiform arrays.

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

pappi tan, 6–7.5 mm.

= 18.