Flora of North America species comparison

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

whitish, sparsely leafy, loosely tomentose.

greenish;

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

grayish green;

blades 1–3-nerved, spatulate to narrowly oblanceolate, 20–30 × 2–3 mm, faces loosely hairy.

6–8 mm.

10–12 mm.

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

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

7.5–9(–10) mm, tubes puberulent, lobes 1.3–1.6 mm, villous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

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

16–20(–30), (brownish costal nerves often evident) apices acute to obtuse, outer abaxial faces sparsely villous to tomentose, inner tomentulose.

densely hairy;

pappi 4.9–6.5 mm.

distally pilose;

pappi 6.5–10 mm.

= 18.

= 18.