Flora of North America species comparison

loosely white-tomentose, not glandular.

stipitate-glandular throughout (usually persistently lightly white-tomentose distally).

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 (not crowded, internodes mostly 5+ mm) lanceolate to oblanceolate, 3–10 cm × 3–13 mm (distal linear), bases not clasping, decurrent 5–10 mm, margins flat to slightly revolute, faces weakly bicolor, abaxial tomentose, adaxial stipitate-glandular, otherwise glabrescent or glabrous.

broadly campanulate, 3–4 mm.

campanulo-subglobose, 4.5–5.5 mm.

135–160.

47–101(–156).

5–10 (corollas red-tipped).

5–12[–21].

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

in 4–5 series, stramineous to creamy (hyaline, shiny), ovate to ovate-oblong, 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).

not ridged, ± papillate-roughened.

= 14, 16, 28.