Flora of North America species comparison

erect, sometimes reddish brown, sometimes branched distally, striate, sparsely to densely long-sericeous.

1–6, ascending, sometimes reddish brown, usually simple, flexuous, slender, moderately sericeous, glabrescent.

basal usually withering by flowering, shorter than cauline;

cauline spreading to ascending, sessile, blades linear, falcate, often conduplicate, apices acuminate;

proximal 50–90 × 2–7 mm, glabrate to sparsely sericeous;

distal somewhat smaller, glabrate except for margins.

basal equaling or shorter than cauline, persistent through winter, withering by flowering;

cauline spreading to ascending, sessile, blades linear-lanceolate, 30–70 × 3–7 mm, apices acute, faces moderately sericeous, glabrescent;

distal slightly reduced.

sparsely bracteolate, 1–4 cm, white-villous.

sparsely bracteolate, 1–11 cm, tomentose, sparsely, minutely glandular;

bracteoles reduced distally.

turbino-campanulate, 5–8 mm.

narrowly campanulate, (7–)8–11 mm (equaling pappi).

9–15;

corolla laminae 5–8 mm.

9–13;

laminae 5–8 mm.

30–60;

corollas 4.5–6 mm, sparsely pilose near base of limbs, lobes 0.5 mm, sparsely pilose.

25–45;

corollas 5.5–7 mm, tubes and proximal throats sparsely puberulent, lobes 0.5 mm, glabrous or glabrate.

in 5–6 series, apices with tufts of hairs, faces sparsely strigose.

in 4–6 series, margins hyaline, sometimes reddish distally, fimbriate (midnerves pronounced), apices acute, faces sparsely pilose, eglandular or sparsely, minutely stipitate-glandular.

(2–)4–10(–25) in corymbiform arrays.

3–20 per stem, in corymbiform arrays.

fusiform, 3–4 mm, ribbed, faces strigose;

pappi: outer of linear setiform scales 0.5–1 mm, inner of 30–40 bristles 4–6 mm.

fusiform, 3–4 mm, ribbed (dark between ribs), faces sparsely strigose;

pappi: outer of linear scales 0.3–1 mm, inner of 30–50 bristles 5.5–7 mm.

= 18.

= 18.