Flora of North America species comparison

yellowish green to nearly white, leafy, compactly, smoothly tomentose.

white, leafy, loosely tomentose.

greenish;

blades 3-nerved, broadly linear, 30–90 × 1–3 mm, faces often tomentulose.

whitish;

blades 1-nerved, filiform, 15–45 × 1–2 mm, faces loosely tomentose.

6–8 mm.

7.5–10.5 mm.

7–9+ mm, tubes puberulent or glabrous, lobes 0.6–1.5, glabrous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

7–9.5 mm, tubes glabrous or puberulent, lobes 0.6–1 mm, glabrous;

style appendages equaling or shorter than stigmatic portions.

14–18, apices erect, acute, abaxial faces usually glabrous, outer sometimes sparsely hairy.

15–17, apices erect, obtuse, outer abaxial faces densely tomentulose, inner glabrous.

densely hairy;

pappi 4.9–6.5 mm.

densely hairy;

pappi 4.8–7.6 mm.

= 18.

= 18.