Flora of North America species comparison

loosely white-tomentose, not glandular.

glandular-puberulent (without persistent tomentum), stipitate glands 0.1–0.2 mm, stalks narrower than gland widths.

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 linear to linear-lanceolate or linear-oblanceolate, 1.5–5.5 cm × 1.5–10 mm, bases not clasping, not decurrent, margins flat, faces bicolor, abaxial white to gray, tomentose, adaxial green, both minutely stipitate-glandular.

broadly campanulate, 3–4 mm.

turbinate-campanulate, 5–6 mm.

135–160.

47–78.

5–10 (corollas red-tipped).

(7–)11–20.

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

in 4–6 series, white to tawny white (hyaline, shiny), narrowly ovate to 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).

ridged, smooth.

= 14, 16, 28.