Flora of North America species comparison

white, leafy, loosely tomentose.

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

whitish;

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

greenish;

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

7.5–10.5 mm.

6–8 mm.

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

style appendages equaling or shorter than stigmatic portions.

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

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

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

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

densely hairy;

pappi 4.8–7.6 mm.

densely hairy;

pappi 4.9–6.5 mm.

= 18.

= 18.