Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect (peduncles sometimes sinuous), branched distally, glabrous proximally, villous distally.

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

linear, 3–20 × 0.5–1 mm, (± fleshy) margins entire, faces sparsely hairy.

hemispheric, 4–7 mm.

obconic to campanulate, 4–6 mm.

conic, muricate, glabrous.

subulate, papillate, glabrous.

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

6–9;

corolla laminae broadly elliptic, 2.5–5 mm.

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

(± persistent) usually 4–6 (in 1 series), elliptic to ovate, glabrous but for hairy 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, narrowly clavate, to 2 mm, sparsely hairy;

pappi usually of 1–4 translucent, white to yellowish, subulate, aristate scales (sometimes 0 in some florets within heads).

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

appendages subulate.

= 8.

= 16.