Flora of North America species comparison

yellowish green, moderately leafy to nearly leafless, compact tomentose.

grayish to white, leafy, loosely tomentose.

yellowish green;

blades 1-nerved, filiform, 10–30 × 0.7–1 mm, faces tomentulose.

grayish green to white;

blades 1-nerved, narrowly linear, 10–50 × 1–1.5 mm, faces loosely tomentose.

7–8.5 mm.

7–10.5 mm.

6–7.5 mm, tubes glabrous, lobes 1.5–2.5 mm, glabrous;

style appendages shorter than stigmatic portions.

6.5–9 mm, tubes usually puberulent, rarely arachnose, lobes 1–2 mm, glabrous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

16–26 (in vertical ranks), apices recurved, acuminate, abaxial faces tomentose to glabrate, glutinous.

10–18, apices erect, mostly obtuse, abaxial faces tomentose, sometimes sparingly.

hairy;

pappi 4.5–6.7 mm.

densely hairy;

pappi 5.2–7.2 mm.

= 18.