Flora of North America species comparison

usually prostrate or decumbent, rarely erect, branched proximally, glabrous or hairy at nodes and distally.

erect or decumbent, branched proximally or distally, ± hairy.

linear to oblanceolate, 10–90 × 2–12 mm, (fleshy) margins entire or lobed, faces glabrous.

linear to oblanceolate or oblong, 8–210 × 1–5.5(–15) mm, (± fleshy in coastal forms) margins entire or with 3–5+ teeth, faces glabrous or ± hairy.

hemispheric, 4–7 mm.

campanulate to depressed-hemispheric or hemispheric, 5–14 mm.

conic, muricate, glabrous.

conic, muricate, glabrous.

7–12; (corollas light to golden yellow) laminae oblong, 1–3 mm.

6–16;

laminae linear to oblong, 5–18 mm.

6–14, lanceolate to ovate, hairy (especially at margins and midribs).

(persistent or falling with cypselae) 4–16 (in 1–2 series), elliptic to ovate or lanceolate to oblong, hairy.

gray, linear to narrowly clavate, (2–)2.5–3 mm, ± hairy;

pappi usually of 4–6(–12) brown, lanceolate or subulate, aristate scales plus 4–5+ shorter, laciniate scales, rarely 0.

black to gray or silver-gray, linear to narrowly clavate, to 4 mm, glabrous or hairy;

pappi 0, or of 1–7 translucent (rarely opaque), brown (rarely white), linear to subulate, aristate scales.

appendages ± oblong, obtuse (style apices ± deltate, glabrous or with apical tufts of hairs and subapical fringes of shorter hairs).

appendages deltate to sublanceolate.

= 8.