Flora of North America species comparison

whitish, sparsely leafy, loosely tomentose.

whitish, leafy, loosely tomentose.

grayish green;

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

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.

10–12 mm.

7.5–13.5 mm.

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

style appendages longer than stigmatic portions.

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

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

distally pilose;

pappi 6.5–10 mm.

densely hairy;

pappi 6–11.3 mm.

= 18.