Flora of North America species comparison

ascending, green, becoming tan, glabrous or puberulent.

erect, green becoming whitish, glabrous, ± resinous.

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.

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.

obconic to subcylindric, 6.5–12 × 3–5 mm.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

in condensed, cymiform arrays, not overtopped by leaves.

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

pappi tan, 6–7.5 mm.

cylindric, 2.5–3 mm, faces hairy;

pappi tan, 3.1–3.9 mm.

= 18 (as Haplopappus scopulorum).

= 18.