Flora of North America species comparison

whitish, sparsely leafy, loosely tomentose.

yellowish green, often leafless at flowering, densely, compactly tomentose.

grayish green;

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

yellowish green;

blades 1-nerved, filiform, 10–30 × 0.8–1 mm, faces glabrate.

10–12 mm.

8–11.5 mm.

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

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

5–8.5 mm, tubes mostly glabrous, lobes 0.5–1.1 mm (erect to incurved), 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.

17–31, apices erect, acute to obtuse, abaxial faces glabrous.

distally pilose;

pappi 6.5–10 mm.

glabrous;

pappi 3–6.6 mm.

= 18.

= 18.