Flora of North America species comparison

whitish, sparsely leafy, loosely tomentose.

grayish to white, leafy, loosely tomentose.

grayish green;

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

grayish green to white;

blades 1-nerved, narrowly linear, 10–50 × 1–1.5 mm, faces loosely tomentose.

10–12 mm.

7–10.5 mm.

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

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

6.5–9 mm, tubes usually puberulent, rarely arachnose, lobes 1–2 mm, 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.

10–18, apices erect, mostly obtuse, abaxial faces tomentose, sometimes sparingly.

distally pilose;

pappi 6.5–10 mm.

densely hairy;

pappi 5.2–7.2 mm.

= 18.

= 18.