Flora of North America species comparison

yellowish green, leafy at flowering, densely tomentose.

whitish, sparsely leafy, loosely tomentose.

yellowish green;

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

grayish green;

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

10–12.5 mm.

10–12 mm.

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

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.

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

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

usually glabrous, sometimes hairy;

pappi 9–10 mm.

distally pilose;

pappi 6.5–10 mm.

= 18.

= 18.