Flora of North America species comparison

erect to spreading, green when young, becoming brown, branched proximally, densely floccose-tomentose, eglandular.

spreading to erect (bushes mostly broader than high), highly branched, green when young, becoming reddish brown, long-stipitate-glandular.

ascending;

blades linear (adaxially sulcate), 10–30 × 1–2 mm, midnerves evident, apices acute, faces mostly densely tomentose, stipitate-glandular;

sometimes with axillary leaf fascicles.

ascending;

blades oblanceolate, 5–40 × 2–7 mm, midnerves evident, (margins crispate) apices acute, faces long-stipitate-glandular;

fascicles absent or of 1–3 leaves.

2–20 mm (usually leafy).

2–20(–40) mm (bracts 1–10+, leaflike).

obconic, 9–11 × 6–9 mm.

campanulate, 9–15 × 10–15 mm.

0.

(0–)1–8;

laminae elliptic, 8–14 × 1.5–4 mm.

10–22;

corollas 9–11 mm.

15–40;

corollas 8.5–10.5 mm.

20–30 in 2–3 series, green to tan, oblong to lanceolate, 5–10 × 0.8–1.5 mm, subequal, mostly chartaceous, outer herbaceous or herbaceous-tipped, midnerves usually evident, apices acute to acuminate, abaxial faces hairy, stipitate-glandular.

17–31 in 2–3 series, green to tan, lanceolate to obovate, 8–18 × 1–4 mm, subequal, outer herbaceous or herbaceous-tipped, inner chartaceous to herbaceous-tipped, midnerves (+ 2 smaller, collateral nerves) often evident, (margins herbaceous or narrowly membranous, mostly stipitate glandular to fimbriate) apices acute to acuminate, abaxial faces stipitate-glandular.

borne singly or in cymiform arrays.

borne singly or (2–3) in (leafy) racemiform arrays (1–4 cm wide).

brownish, narrowly oblong, 5–6 mm, densely hairy;

pappi tan, 8–10 mm.

narrowly turbinate to ellipsoid, 5.5–8 mm, villous;

pappi tan, 7.5–9 mm.

= 18.