Flora of North America species comparison

white, leafy, loosely tomentose.

whitish, leafy, loosely tomentose.

whitish;

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

dark green to grayish white;

blades 1-nerved, linear to linear-oblanceolate, 30–70 × 0.3–1.5(–2.5) mm, faces usually loosely, rarely compactly, tomentose.

7.5–10.5 mm.

7.5–13.5 mm.

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

style appendages equaling or shorter than stigmatic portions.

8.7–13 mm, tubes tomentose or glabrous, lobes 1.1–2.1 mm, glabrous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

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

12–28, apices erect, acute, abaxial faces tomentose (especially outer), sometimes sparsely.

densely hairy;

pappi 4.8–7.6 mm.

densely hairy;

pappi 6–11.3 mm.

= 18.