Flora of North America species comparison

grayish to white, leafy, loosely tomentose.

whitish, sparsely leafy, loosely tomentose.

grayish green to white;

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

grayish green;

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

7–10.5 mm.

10–12 mm.

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

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

7.5–9(–10) mm, tubes puberulent, lobes 1.3–1.6 mm, villous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

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

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

densely hairy;

pappi 5.2–7.2 mm.

distally pilose;

pappi 6.5–10 mm.

= 18.

= 18.