Flora of North America species comparison

loosely white-tomentose, not glandular.

stipitate-glandular, sometimes lightly villous as well.

blades (crowded, internodes 1–5, sometimes to 10 mm) narrowly obovate to subspatulate, 1–3(–6) cm × 2–8 mm (distal smaller, oblanceolate to narrowly oblong or linear), bases subclasping, usually decurrent 1–2 mm, margins weakly revolute, faces mostly concolor to weakly bicolor, abaxial gray-tomentose, adaxial usually gray-tomentose, sometimes glabrescent, neither glandular.

blades mostly narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 4–10 cm × 5–10(–20) mm (relatively even-sized distally), bases auriculate-clasping to subclasping or not, decurrent (2–10 mm) or not, margins flat or slightly revolute, faces concolor, mostly green, stipitate-glandular, viscid, sometimes lightly villous as well.

broadly campanulate, 3–4 mm.

campanulo-globose, 5.5–7 mm.

135–160.

105–140.

5–10 (corollas red-tipped).

7–12.

in 3–4 series, silvery gray to yellowish (hyaline), ovate to ovate-oblong, glabrous.

in 7–10 series, white (opaque, shiny or dull), broadly ovate to oblong-obovate, glabrous.

in terminal glomerules (1–2 cm diam.).

in corymbiform arrays.

not evidently ridged (conspicuously dotted with whitish, papilliform hairs; pappus bristles loosely coherent basally, released in clusters or easily fragmented rings).

ridged, smooth.

= 14, 16, 28.

= 28.