Flora of North America species comparison

loosely white-tomentose, not glandular.

(1+ from base, erect to ascending) loosely tomentose, not glandular.

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 (crowded, internodes usually 1–5, sometimes to 10 mm) oblong to narrowly oblanceolate or subspatulate, 2–8(–9.5) cm × 2–5(–10) mm (smaller distally, narrowly lanceolate to linear), bases subclasping, usually not decurrent, sometimes decurrent 1–2 mm, margins flat or slightly revolute, faces concolor, loosely and persistently gray-tomentose, not glandular.

broadly campanulate, 3–4 mm.

subglobose, 4–6 mm.

135–160.

160–200.

5–10 (corollas red-tipped).

[8–]18–28.

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

in 4–5 series, whitish (often yellowish with age, hyaline, shiny), ovate to oblong-obovate, glabrous.

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

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

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

weakly, if at all, ridged (otherwise smooth or papillate-roughened, glabrous, without papilliform hairs; pappus bristles loosely coherent basally, released in clusters or easily fragmented rings).

= 14, 16, 28.

= 28.