Flora of North America species comparison

faces closely strigose;

proximal blades narrowly spatulate to linear, 5–15+ × 0.5–2(–3+) mm;

distal similar, smaller, narrower.

3–4 mm.

0.7–1 mm diam. in fruit.

20–30;

corollas ± equaling or surpassing styles, laminae 0.3–0.8 mm.

3–8.

glabrous or glabrate;

outer greenish to purplish, lanceolate, shorter, sparsely strigose;

inner stramineous to purplish, linear-attenuate (more scarious).

in loose, corymbiform arrays or borne ± singly.

pale tan, 1–1.5 mm, faces sparsely strigillose or glabrous;

pappi of 20–30, tawny to pinkish bristles 2–2.5 mm.

= 18.