Flora of North America species comparison

erect to spreading (close to the ground), green when young, becoming pale reddish brown, highly branched, coarsely long-stipitate-glandular.

stems prostrate or ascending to erect, green when young (± concealed by tomentum), becoming tan to brown, moderately branched, densely floccose-tomentose, eglandular.

(crowded) ascending;

blades elliptic to oblanceolate, 10–25 × 3–8 mm, midnerves evident (1–2 fainter, collateral nerves often present), (margins undulate) apices acute, apiculate, faces long-stipitate-glandular;

fascicles usually absent, (sometimes of 1–3 reduced leaves).

ascending;

blades elliptic or oblanceolate (flat), 6–15 × 2.5–5 mm, midnerves prominent, apices acute (often curved downward), faces densely silvery white floccose-tomentose, eglandular;

fascicles absent.

1–12 mm (bracts 3–20, crowded, leafy, grading into phyllaries).

1–5 mm (tomentose, bracts 0–3, phyllary-like).

broadly obconic, 6–8 × 4–7 mm.

obconic, 9–12 × 3–4 mm.

4–8;

laminae elliptic, 6–9 × 1–2 mm.

0.

12–22;

corollas 5.5–6.5 mm.

4–9;

corollas ca. 9 mm.

25–30 in 3–4 series, green to tan, ovate to oblong, 4–8 × 0.7–1.5 mm, unequal, outer herbaceous or with herbaceous appendages, inner mostly chartaceous, midnerves usually evident, (margins entire, outer often herbaceous, inner scarious) apices acute to acuminate or attenuate, abaxial faces mostly stipitate-glandular.

11–15 in 2–3 series, lanceolate or elliptic to oblanceolate, 1.5–5 × 0.8–1.3 mm, subequal, outer herbaceous or herbaceous-tipped, inner mostly chartaceous or herbaceous-tipped, midnerves conspicuous, raised, (margins: outer herbaceous, entire, floccose-tomentose, inner narrowly scarious, minutely lacerate) apices acute to acuminate, outer abaxial faces floccose-tomentose, inner glabrate.

usually in cymiform arrays.

usually borne singly, sometimes (2–3) in racemiform arrays (5–20 mm wide).

tan to brown, narrowly turbinate, 3–4.5 mm (usually 5-ribbed), moderately sericeous;

pappi tan, 4–5.5 mm.

tan to brown, narrowly oblanceoloid, 5–7 mm (5-ribbed), densely sericeous;

pappi tan, 8–9 mm.

= 18.