Flora of North America species comparison

grayish to nearly green, leafy, loosely tomentose.

white to yellowish green, nearly leafless at flowering, densely tomentose.

grayish green;

blades mostly 3–5-nerved, broadly linear, 40–90 × 3–6(–10) mm, faces tomentulose.

yellowish green;

blades 1-nerved, filiform, 10–30 × 0.5–1.5 mm, faces glabrate.

7.5–9.5(–10.5) mm.

8.5–12.

7.5–9.5 mm, tubes minutely puberulent, lobes 1–1.5 mm, glabrous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

7–10.9 mm, tubes puberulent, lobes 0.9–2 mm, glabrous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

11–17, apices erect, obtuse, outer abaxial faces glabrous or with apical tufts of hairs, inner frequently glabrous.

20–26, apices erect, acute, abaxial faces tomentose to glabrate.

densely hairy;

pappi 7.5–7.6 mm.

densely hairy;

pappi 6.3–9.8 mm.

= 18.