Flora of North America species comparison

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

grayish to nearly green, leafy, loosely tomentose.

yellowish green;

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

grayish green;

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

7–8.5 mm.

7.5–9.5(–10.5) mm.

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

style appendages shorter than stigmatic portions.

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

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

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

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

hairy;

pappi 4.5–6.7 mm.

densely hairy;

pappi 7.5–7.6 mm.