Flora of North America species comparison

whitish, leafy, loosely tomentose.

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

dark green to grayish;

blades 1-nerved, filiform to linear, 30–40 × 1–3 mm, faces compactly tomentose.

yellowish green;

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

8–13 mm.

8–11.5 mm.

7.5–10 mm, tubes glabrous or moderately hairy, lobes 1.6–2.5 mm, glabrous;

style appendages shorter than stigmatic portions.

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

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

14–18, apices erect, acute to obtuse, outer abaxial faces sparsely tomentose, inner glabrous.

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

densely hairy;

pappi 5.2–9 mm.

glabrous;

pappi 3–6.6 mm.

= 18.

= 18.