Flora of North America species comparison

grayish green, moderately leafy, moderately compactly tomentose.

grayish to nearly green, leafy, loosely tomentose.

grayish green;

blades 1-nerved, linear, 40–75 × 0.8–1.1 mm, faces tomentose.

grayish green;

blades mostly 3–5-nerved, broadly linear, 40–90 × 3–6(–10) mm, faces tomentulose.

16–19 mm.

7.5–9.5(–10.5) mm.

12–14.2 mm, tubes glabrous, lobes 1.2–2 mm, glabrous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

7.5–9.5 mm, tubes minutely puberulent, lobes 1–1.5 mm, glabrous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

(19–)22–27 (in strongly vertical ranks), apices ± recurved, cuspidate-aristate, abaxial faces glabrous or glabrescent.

11–17, apices erect, obtuse, outer abaxial faces glabrous or with apical tufts of hairs, inner frequently glabrous.

hairy;

pappi 9.6–12.7 mm.

densely hairy;

pappi 7.5–7.6 mm.

= 18.