Flora of North America species comparison

yellowish green, leafy at flowering, densely tomentose.

whitish, leafy, loosely tomentose.

yellowish green;

blades 1-nerved, linear, 30–50 × 1–1.5 mm, faces glabrate.

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.

10–12.5 mm.

7.5–13.5 mm.

9.5–11 mm, tubes mostly glabrous, lobes 0.7–1 mm, glabrous or villous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

8.7–13 mm, tubes tomentose or glabrous, lobes 1.1–2.1 mm, glabrous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

13–19 (outer weakly keeled), apices erect, acute (outer) or acute to obtuse (inner), outer abaxial faces scurfy-tomentulose, inner glabrous.

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

usually glabrous, sometimes hairy;

pappi 9–10 mm.

densely hairy;

pappi 6–11.3 mm.

= 18.