Flora of North America species comparison

yellowish green, becoming whitish, leafy, compactly tomentose.

white to yellowish green, nearly leafless at flowering, densely tomentose.

mostly greenish yellow;

blades 1-nerved, linear, 30–50 × 1–2 mm, faces ± tomentose.

yellowish green;

blades 1-nerved, filiform, 10–30 × 0.5–1.5 mm, faces glabrate.

10–14 mm.

8.5–12.

10–12 mm, tubes puberulent, lobes 1.7–2.3 mm, glabrous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

7–10.9 mm, tubes puberulent, lobes 0.9–2 mm, glabrous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

13–20 (in vertical ranks), apices erect, acuminate, abaxial faces glabrous or tomentose.

20–26, apices erect, acute, abaxial faces tomentose to glabrate.

densely sericeous;

pappi 7–8 mm.

densely hairy;

pappi 6.3–9.8 mm.

= 18.