Flora of North America species comparison

erect to spreading, abundantly branched, twigs green when young, concealed by whitish, pannose tomentum, sporadically stipitate-glandular.

ascending to spreading;

blades linear or oblong to oblanceolate (flat), 10–35 × 2–7 mm, midnerves evident (1–2 fainter, collateral nerves often present), (margins often undulate) apices acute to obtuse, usually apiculate, faces usually stipitate-glandular, resinous;

axillary fascicles absent.

3–15 mm (bracts 0–3, reduced, leaflike, whitish tomentose and usually stipitate-glandular).

obconic, 9–13 × 6–10 mm.

0.

10–26;

corollas 9–11 mm.

12–17 in 2–3 series, green to tan, lanceolate to oblong, 6–10 × 1–2 mm, subequal, outer herbaceous or distally so, inner mostly chartaceous, midnerves evident, (margins of outer often distally stipitate-glandular, of inner narrowly membranous, sometimes minutely ciliolate) apices acute to attenuate, abaxial faces stipitate-glandular.

borne singly or in cymiform to racemiform arrays.

brownish, narrowly oblong to narrowly ovoid, 5–6 mm, villous;

pappi tan, 8.5–11 mm.

= 18.