Flora of North America species comparison

whitish, leafy, loosely tomentose.

grayish to nearly green, leafy, loosely tomentose.

dark green to grayish;

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

grayish green;

blades mostly 3–5-nerved, broadly linear, 40–90 × 3–6(–10) mm, faces tomentulose.

8–13 mm.

7.5–9.5(–10.5) mm.

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

style appendages shorter than stigmatic portions.

7.5–9.5 mm, tubes minutely puberulent, lobes 1–1.5 mm, glabrous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

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

11–17, apices erect, obtuse, outer abaxial faces glabrous or with apical tufts of hairs, inner frequently glabrous.

densely hairy;

pappi 5.2–9 mm.

densely hairy;

pappi 7.5–7.6 mm.

= 18.