Flora of North America species comparison

grayish to nearly green, leafy, loosely tomentose.

whitish, leafy, loosely tomentose.

grayish green;

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

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.

7.5–9.5(–10.5) mm.

7.5–13.5 mm.

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

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.

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

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

densely hairy;

pappi 7.5–7.6 mm.

densely hairy;

pappi 6–11.3 mm.