Flora of North America species comparison

whitish, nearly leafless at flowering, loosely tomentose.

greenish, usually leafy, compactly tomentose.

mostly grayish white;

blades 1-nerved, filiform, 15–30 × 0.5–1 mm, faces tomentulose.

yellowish green;

blades 1-nerved, filiform to linear, 20–50 × 0.8–1 mm, faces glabrate.

10.5–12.5 mm.

6.5–10 mm.

9–11 mm, tubes glabrous or puberulent, lobes 0.8–1.5 mm, glabrous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

6–9 mm, tubes glabrous, lobes 1.5–2.5 mm, glabrous;

style appendages shorter than or equaling stigmatic portions.

14–18(–25), apices erect, acute to acuminate, abaxial faces tomentulose.

11–20, apices erect, acute, glabrous.

glabrous;

pappi 7.2–11 mm.

hairy (sometimes glabrous in Idaho populations);

pappi 4.2–7.6 mm.

= 18.

= 18 (as Chrysothamnus nauseosus subsp. consimilis).