Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate, procumbent, or decumbent, pilose.

erect or ascending, sparsely pilose, 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.

sessile or petiolate;

petiole to 0.9 cm;

blade green, elliptic, oblong, oblanceolate, or linear, 3–10 × 0.5–1.2 cm, sparsely pilose.

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

bractlets with denticulate crests along keel.

heads white, globose, 0.8–1.3 mm diam., subtended by 2 leaves;

bractlets white, not crested.

tube densely lanate;

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

tube densely lanose proximally;

perianth lobes white, oblong, 3.5–4 mm, hyaline, apex rounded to emarginate.

1.2 mm.

1–1.5 mm.

ovoid, 2.2 mm, apex acute.

ovoid, 2.2 mm, apex acute.