Flora of North America species comparison

white to yellowish green, nearly leafless at flowering, densely tomentose.

grayish to white, leafy, loosely tomentose.

yellowish green;

blades 1-nerved, filiform, 10–30 × 0.5–1.5 mm, faces glabrate.

grayish green to white;

blades 1-nerved, narrowly linear, 10–50 × 1–1.5 mm, faces loosely tomentose.

8.5–12.

7–10.5 mm.

7–10.9 mm, tubes puberulent, lobes 0.9–2 mm, glabrous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

6.5–9 mm, tubes usually puberulent, rarely arachnose, lobes 1–2 mm, glabrous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

20–26, apices erect, acute, abaxial faces tomentose to glabrate.

10–18, apices erect, mostly obtuse, abaxial faces tomentose, sometimes sparingly.

densely hairy;

pappi 6.3–9.8 mm.

densely hairy;

pappi 5.2–7.2 mm.

= 18.

= 18.