Flora of North America species comparison

whitish, leafy, loosely tomentose.

whitish, sparsely leafy, loosely tomentose.

dark green to grayish;

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

grayish green;

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

8–13 mm.

10–12 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(–10) mm, tubes puberulent, lobes 1.3–1.6 mm, villous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

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

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

densely hairy;

pappi 5.2–9 mm.

distally pilose;

pappi 6.5–10 mm.

= 18.

= 18.