Flora of North America species comparison

whitish, leafy, loosely tomentose.

white, leafy, loosely 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.

whitish;

blades 1-nerved, filiform, 15–45 × 1–2 mm, faces loosely tomentose.

7.5–13.5 mm.

7.5–10.5 mm.

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

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

7–9.5 mm, tubes glabrous or puberulent, lobes 0.6–1 mm, glabrous;

style appendages equaling or shorter than stigmatic portions.

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

15–17, apices erect, obtuse, outer abaxial faces densely tomentulose, inner glabrous.

densely hairy;

pappi 6–11.3 mm.

densely hairy;

pappi 4.8–7.6 mm.

= 18.