Flora of North America species comparison

whitish, sparsely leafy, loosely tomentose.

yellowish green to nearly white, leafy, compactly, smoothly tomentose.

grayish green;

blades 1–3-nerved, spatulate to narrowly oblanceolate, 20–30 × 2–3 mm, faces loosely hairy.

greenish;

blades 3-nerved, broadly linear, 30–90 × 1–3 mm, faces often tomentulose.

10–12 mm.

6–8 mm.

7.5–9(–10) mm, tubes puberulent, lobes 1.3–1.6 mm, villous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

7–9+ mm, tubes puberulent or glabrous, lobes 0.6–1.5, glabrous;

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

16–20(–30), (brownish costal nerves often evident) apices acute to obtuse, outer abaxial faces sparsely villous to tomentose, inner tomentulose.

14–18, apices erect, acute, abaxial faces usually glabrous, outer sometimes sparsely hairy.

distally pilose;

pappi 6.5–10 mm.

densely hairy;

pappi 4.9–6.5 mm.

= 18.

= 18.