Flora of North America species comparison

loosely white-tomentose, not glandular.

persistently tomentose, not glandular (2–3 mm diam. near bases).

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 narrowly to broadly oblanceolate, mostly 2–4(–5) cm × 2–8(–15) mm, bases not clasping, not decurrent, margins flat, faces weakly bicolor, tomentose (adaxial less densely tomentose, sometimes sessile-glandular beneath tomentum).

broadly campanulate, 3–4 mm.

turbinate-campanulate, 4–5 mm.

135–160.

(16–)24–44.

5–10 (corollas red-tipped).

(1–)2–5(–6), 5–6 more common in northern part of range.

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

in 3–4 series, white (opaque to hyaline, dull to shiny), narrowly ovate-lanceolate, glabrous.

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

usually in loose, corymbiform arrays.

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

ridged, weakly papillate-roughened.

= 14, 16, 28.

= 28.