Flora of North America species comparison

loosely white-tomentose, not glandular.

lightly white-tomentose and/or glabrescent and green, minutely stipitate- or sessile-glandular beneath other induments.

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) oblanceolate-spatulate to obovate- or petiolate-spatulate, 5–10 cm × 10–20 mm (distal oblong to lanceolate or oblanceolate, 2–8 cm, slightly smaller), bases not clasping and decurrent 3–20 mm or clasping and decurrent 1–3 mm or not decurrent at all, margins flat to slightly revolute, faces bicolor, abaxial thinly white-tomentose, adaxial minutely stipitate- or sessile-glandular, otherwise glabrous or glabrate (bases of hairs persistent, enlarged).

broadly campanulate, 3–4 mm.

campanulate to turbinate, 3.5–4 mm.

135–160.

15–40(–64).

5–10 (corollas red-tipped).

(1–)2–6.

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

in 2–3 series, silvery white to tawny, oblong to oblong-ovate, (hyaline, shiny), glabrous.

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

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, papillate-roughened.

= 14, 16, 28.