Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, branched distally, glabrous or slightly hairy.

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

linear or subulate, 40–150 × 2–3+ mm, margins entire, faces glabrous.

hemispheric, 4–7 mm.

hemispheric, 5–10 mm.

conic, muricate, glabrous.

± conic, papillate, glabrous or sparsely hairy.

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

7–15; (corollas yellow) laminae oblong, 4–14 mm.

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

10–14, ± lanceolate (distinct tips ± deltate), glabrous but for apices.

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.

gray, clavate or obovoid, 2–3.5 mm, margins not ciliate, faces glabrous, or hairy and papillate (papillae rusty or yellowish, wartlike);

pappi 0.

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

appendages deltate or broadly ovate.

= 8.