Flora of North America species comparison

erect to ascending, green when young, soon reddish to brownish, branched, glabrous or tomentose, stipitate-glandular.

stems prostrate or ascending to erect, green when young (± concealed by tomentum), becoming tan to brown, moderately branched, densely floccose-tomentose, eglandular.

mostly erect or ascending;

blades spatulate (flat), 15–30 × 3–7 mm, midnerves (and sometimes 2 fainter, collateral nerves) evident (slightly raised abaxially), apices obtuse, mucronate, faces glabrous or tomentose and/or stipitate-glandular;

axillary fascicles absent.

ascending;

blades elliptic or oblanceolate (flat), 6–15 × 2.5–5 mm, midnerves prominent, apices acute (often curved downward), faces densely silvery white floccose-tomentose, eglandular;

fascicles absent.

usually less than 20, rarely to 100 mm (leafy).

1–5 mm (tomentose, bracts 0–3, phyllary-like).

broadly campanulate, 8–12 × 12–15 mm.

obconic, 9–12 × 3–4 mm.

(0–)1–7;

laminae 7–10 × 1.5–2.8 mm.

0.

7–20;

corollas 8–9.5 mm.

4–9;

corollas ca. 9 mm.

18–28 in 2–3 series, green to tan, lanceolate to elliptic, 10–14 × 1.3–2.7 mm, subequal (outer sometimes slightly longer than inner), outer herbaceous or with herbaceous appendages, inner mostly chartaceous, midnerves (and often 2 collateral nerves) evident, (margins often narrowly membranous, fimbriate or tomentose) apices acute, acuminate to cuspidate, abaxial faces stipitate-glandular.

11–15 in 2–3 series, lanceolate or elliptic to oblanceolate, 1.5–5 × 0.8–1.3 mm, subequal, outer herbaceous or herbaceous-tipped, inner mostly chartaceous or herbaceous-tipped, midnerves conspicuous, raised, (margins: outer herbaceous, entire, floccose-tomentose, inner narrowly scarious, minutely lacerate) apices acute to acuminate, outer abaxial faces floccose-tomentose, inner glabrate.

(12–22) usually in (leafy) congested, cymiform or racemiform arrays, rarely borne singly.

usually borne singly, sometimes (2–3) in racemiform arrays (5–20 mm wide).

tan to reddish, ellipsoid, 5–7 mm, glabrous or distally hairy;

pappi off-white to reddish brown, 7–9 mm.

tan to brown, narrowly oblanceoloid, 5–7 mm (5-ribbed), densely sericeous;

pappi tan, 8–9 mm.

= 18.