Flora of North America species comparison

grayish green (at least when young), leafy, faces ± compactly tomentose.

yellowish green, moderately leafy at flowering, tomentum compact.

grayish green;

blades 1-nerved, linear, 15–40 × 0.8–1 mm, compactly tomentose.

grayish green;

blades 1-nerved, linear, 10–20 × 0.5–1.5 mm, faces tomentulose to densely tomentose.

12–16 mm.

11.2–16 mm.

7.8–8.7 mm, tubes glabrous, lobes 1.5–2 mm, glabrous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

9.8–11.8 mm, tubes puberulent or glabrous, lobes 0.7–0.9 mm, villous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

20–26, apices erect, acute to acuminate, abaxial faces glabrous.

16–25, apices erect, acute to short-acuminate, outer abaxial faces tomentose or glabrous, inner often glabrous.

glabrous;

pappi 5.2–5.8 mm.

glabrous or densely hairy;

pappi 9.5–12 mm.

= 18.

= 18.