Flora of North America species comparison

grayish to nearly green, leafy, loosely tomentose.

yellowish green, moderately leafy at flowering, tomentum compact.

grayish green;

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

grayish green;

blades 1-nerved, linear, 10–20 × 0.5–1.5 mm, faces tomentulose to densely tomentose.

7.5–9.5(–10.5) mm.

11.2–16 mm.

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

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

9.8–11.8 mm, tubes puberulent or glabrous, lobes 0.7–0.9 mm, villous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

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

16–25, apices erect, acute to short-acuminate, outer abaxial faces tomentose or glabrous, inner often glabrous.

densely hairy;

pappi 7.5–7.6 mm.

glabrous or densely hairy;

pappi 9.5–12 mm.

= 18.