Flora of North America species comparison

yellowish green, often leafless at flowering, densely, compactly tomentose.

whitish, sparsely leafy, loosely tomentose.

yellowish green;

blades 1-nerved, filiform, 10–30 × 0.8–1 mm, faces glabrate.

grayish green;

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

8–11.5 mm.

10–12 mm.

5–8.5 mm, tubes mostly glabrous, lobes 0.5–1.1 mm (erect to incurved), 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.

17–31, apices erect, acute to obtuse, abaxial faces glabrous.

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

glabrous;

pappi 3–6.6 mm.

distally pilose;

pappi 6.5–10 mm.

= 18.

= 18.