Flora of North America species comparison

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

whitish, leafy, loosely tomentose.

greenish;

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

grayish green;

blades 1-nerved, linear, 10–35 × 1(–1.5) mm, faces loosely tomentulose.

6–8 mm.

8–11.5 mm.

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

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

8.4–10.9 mm, tubes glabrous or sparsely puberulent, lobes 0.6–1.3 mm, glabrous;

style appendages shorter than stigmatic portions.

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

16–23 (outer margins ciliate), apices erect, acute to obtuse (outer) to acuminate (inner), outer abaxial faces tomentose, glabrescent.

densely hairy;

pappi 4.9–6.5 mm.

glabrous;

pappi 5.2–7.4 mm.

= 18.

= 18.