Flora of North America species comparison

erect to spreading or recurved, green when young, soon becoming tan to brown, then nearly black when older, highly branched, twigs glabrous, glandular, usually resinous.

erect to spreading, green when young, often black-banded or splotched (from fungal infections), fastigiately branched, glabrous, gland-dotted, resinous.

ascending to spreading;

blades usually elliptic to oblanceolate, occasionally spatulate, 10–15 × 0.5–1.5 mm, mostly adaxially sulcate, margins entire, midnerves usually obscure to weakly evident, apices acute, apiculate, faces glandular, sometimes irregularly gland-dotted (in shallow pits), resinous;

axillary fascicles present, persistent.

mostly ascending;

blades filiform (adaxially sulcate), 10–35 × 0.5–1.5 mm, midnerves obscure, apices apiculate, faces glabrous, gland-dotted (in circular, deep pits), resinous;

axillary fascicles usually absent.

0.2–5 mm (mostly ebracteate, glabrous).

2–12 mm (bracts 0–10, leaflike).

obconic, 5.5–7.5 × 2.5–4 mm.

subcylindric, 5.5–9 × 3.5–7 mm.

1–7;

laminae elliptic, 3–4 × 0.8–1.3 mm.

0.

4–8;

corollas 4.5–6.5 mm.

5–8;

corollas 5–7 mm.

22–30 in 4–5 series, mostly tan, lanceolate to elliptic, 2–6.5 × 0.5–1.2 mm, strongly unequal, outer sometimes herbaceous or herbaceous-tipped (body apices obtuse or truncate to retuse, appendages erect), midnerves not evident or slightly raised, slightly expanded subapically, (mostly margins narrowly membranous, entire) apices acute to acuminate or attenuate, mid often aristate to cuspidate, abaxial faces glabrous, resinous.

13–20 in 3–5 series, tan, lanceolate to elliptic, 1–5 × 0.5–1.7 mm, unequal, mostly chartaceous, membranous, midnerves not or slightly raised, faint on distal 1/2, (margins entire, sometimes ciliate distally) apices erect, acute to rounded, apiculate, abaxial faces glabrous, ± resinous.

in congested, cymiform arrays (0.5–2.5 cm wide).

in paniculiform arrays (5–50 mm wide).

tan, narrowly oblanceoloid, 4–5.5 mm, glabrous or densely sericeous;

pappi tan, 4–5.5 mm.

tan to brown, narrowly elliptic to oblanceoloid, 3.5–4.5 mm (ribs ca. 5), sericeous;

pappi off-white to brown, 5.5–6.5 mm.

= 18.

= 18.