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.

grayish green;

blades 1-nerved, linear, 10–35 × 1(–1.5) mm, faces loosely tomentulose.

10–12.5 mm.

8–11.5 mm.

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

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

8.4–10.9 mm, tubes glabrous or sparsely puberulent, lobes 0.6–1.3 mm, glabrous;

style appendages shorter than stigmatic portions.

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

16–23 (outer margins ciliate), apices erect, acute to obtuse (outer) to acuminate (inner), outer abaxial faces tomentose, glabrescent.

usually glabrous, sometimes hairy;

pappi 9–10 mm.

glabrous;

pappi 5.2–7.4 mm.

= 18.

= 18.