Flora of North America species comparison

whitish, leafy, loosely tomentose.

whitish, leafy, loosely tomentose.

dark green to grayish;

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

8–13 mm.

7.5–13.5 mm.

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

style appendages 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.

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

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

densely hairy;

pappi 5.2–9 mm.

densely hairy;

pappi 6–11.3 mm.

= 18.