Flora of North America species comparison

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

yellowish green, leafy at flowering, densely tomentose.

yellowish green;

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

yellowish green;

blades 1-nerved, linear, 30–50 × 1–1.5 mm, faces glabrate.

7–8.5 mm.

10–12.5 mm.

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

style appendages shorter than stigmatic portions.

9.5–11 mm, tubes mostly glabrous, lobes 0.7–1 mm, glabrous or villous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

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

13–19 (outer weakly keeled), apices erect, acute (outer) or acute to obtuse (inner), outer abaxial faces scurfy-tomentulose, inner glabrous.

hairy;

pappi 4.5–6.7 mm.

usually glabrous, sometimes hairy;

pappi 9–10 mm.

= 18.