Flora of North America species comparison

whitish, leafy, loosely tomentose.

yellowish green, moderately leafy to nearly leafless, compact tomentose.

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.

yellowish green;

blades 1-nerved, filiform, 10–30 × 0.7–1 mm, faces tomentulose.

7.5–13.5 mm.

7–8.5 mm.

8.7–13 mm, tubes tomentose or glabrous, lobes 1.1–2.1 mm, glabrous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

6–7.5 mm, tubes glabrous, lobes 1.5–2.5 mm, glabrous;

style appendages shorter than stigmatic portions.

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

16–26 (in vertical ranks), apices recurved, acuminate, abaxial faces tomentose to glabrate, glutinous.

densely hairy;

pappi 6–11.3 mm.

hairy;

pappi 4.5–6.7 mm.