Flora of North America species comparison

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

white to yellowish green, nearly leafless at flowering, densely tomentose.

greenish;

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

yellowish green;

blades 1-nerved, filiform, 10–30 × 0.5–1.5 mm, faces glabrate.

6–8 mm.

8.5–12.

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

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

7–10.9 mm, tubes puberulent, lobes 0.9–2 mm, glabrous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

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

20–26, apices erect, acute, abaxial faces tomentose to glabrate.

densely hairy;

pappi 4.9–6.5 mm.

densely hairy;

pappi 6.3–9.8 mm.

= 18.

= 18.