Flora of North America species comparison

loosely white-tomentose, not glandular.

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 narrowly oblanceolate, 3–8 cm × 3–6 mm (gradually smaller distally, becoming linear), bases not clasping, decurrent 5–14 mm, margins flat, faces concolor, loosely tomentose, sessile-glandular beneath tomentum.

broadly campanulate, 3–4 mm.

turbinate-campanulate, (4–)5–6 mm.

135–160.

35–55.

5–10 (corollas red-tipped).

(2–)4–7.

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

in 3–4(–5) series, whitish (hyaline or opaque, usually shiny, sometimes dull), ovate to ovate-oblong (outer broadly acute, inner rounded-apiculate), glabrous.

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

in loose to dense, corymbiform to paniculiform arrays.

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

ridged, densely papillate-roughened.

= 14, 16, 28.