Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate, procumbent, or decumbent, pilose.

ascending, with 1–2 pairs of leaves, sparsely villous, often glabrate.

sessile or petiolate;

petiole to 0.6 cm;

blade green, obovate to oblong, 1.5–7.5 × 0.5–2.5 cm, apex rounded or obtuse, pilose-sericeous.

mostly basal;

petiole to 3 cm;

blade green, obovate or oblong, 3.5–7.5 × 2–3 cm, apex rounded or obtuse, densely grayish appressed-pilose.

heads white tinged with pink or red, globose to short-cylindric, 9–13 mm diam.;

bractlets with denticulate crests along keel.

heads white, subglobose, 10–17 mm diam.;

bractlets not crested, margins dentate near apex.

tube densely lanate;

perianth lobes white, narrowly oblong, 4–5 mm, apex attenuate.

tube densely white-pilose;

perianth lobes white to yellow, linear to lanceolate, 4.5–5 mm, hyaline, apex obtuse.

1.2 mm.

1.5 mm.

ovoid, 2.2 mm, apex acute.

ovoid, 2 mm, apex acute.