Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent to ascending, green when young, often reddish tinged, soon reddish brown to brown, branched, twigs long-stipitate-glandular (sometimes with crinkly hairs interspersed).

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.

mostly erect or ascending;

blades spatulate (flat), 25–40 × 2.5–7 mm, midnerves (plus 2 smaller, collateral nerves) evident, apices acuminate, faces long-stipitate-glandular;

fascicles absent.

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

3–15 mm (long-stipitate-glandular, bracts 0–3, phyllary-like).

broadly campanulate, 8–12 × 12–15 mm.

turbinate to narrowly campanulate, 14–22 × 6–8 mm.

(0–)1–7;

laminae 7–10 × 1.5–2.8 mm.

0.

7–20;

corollas 8–9.5 mm.

10–21;

corollas 9.5–12 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.

17–23 in 2–4 series, tan to green, lanceolate to elliptic, 10–14 × 1.6–2.7 mm, subequal (outer often slightly longer than inner), outer herbaceous or with herbaceous cusps, inner mostly chartaceous, midnerves (often plus 2 collateral nerves) evident, (margins villous distally) apices acute to acuminate, abaxial faces stipitate-glandular, inner sometimes glabrous.

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

in (leafy) congested, paniculiform to cymiform arrays (1–4 cm wide).

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

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

tan to reddish, ellipsoid, 7–8 mm, glabrous or apically hairy;

pappi off-white to brown, sometimes reddish, 9–9.5 mm.

= 18.

= 18 [as Haplopappus bloomeri subsp. compactus].