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.

decumbent to ascending, green when young, often reddish tinged, soon reddish brown to brown, branched, twigs long-stipitate-glandular (sometimes with crinkly hairs interspersed).

(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).

mostly erect or ascending;

blades spatulate (flat), 25–40 × 2.5–7 mm, midnerves (plus 2 smaller, collateral nerves) evident, apices acuminate, faces long-stipitate-glandular;

fascicles absent.

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

3–15 mm (long-stipitate-glandular, bracts 0–3, phyllary-like).

broadly obconic, 6–8 × 4–7 mm.

turbinate to narrowly campanulate, 14–22 × 6–8 mm.

4–8;

laminae elliptic, 6–9 × 1–2 mm.

0.

12–22;

corollas 5.5–6.5 mm.

10–21;

corollas 9.5–12 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.

17–23 in 2–4 series, tan to green, lanceolate to elliptic, 10–14 × 1.6–2.7 mm, subequal (outer often slightly longer than inner), outer herbaceous or with herbaceous cusps, inner mostly chartaceous, midnerves (often plus 2 collateral nerves) evident, (margins villous distally) apices acute to acuminate, abaxial faces stipitate-glandular, inner sometimes glabrous.

usually in cymiform arrays.

in (leafy) congested, paniculiform to cymiform arrays (1–4 cm wide).

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

pappi tan, 4–5.5 mm.

tan to reddish, ellipsoid, 7–8 mm, glabrous or apically hairy;

pappi off-white to brown, sometimes reddish, 9–9.5 mm.

= 18.

= 18 [as Haplopappus bloomeri subsp. compactus].