Flora of North America species comparison

persistently grayish tomentose, not glandular, (3–5 mm diam. near bases).

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

blades narrowly oblanceolate, 2–5(–8) cm × 5–10(–18) mm (gradually smaller distally, becoming lanceolate), bases not clasping, not decurrent, margins flat, faces weakly bicolor, tomentose (adaxial less densely), not 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.

turbinate-campanulate, 5–6 mm.

subglobose, 4–6 mm.

29–49.

160–200.

5–9.

[8–]18–28.

in 4–5 series, white (opaque, dull), ovate to oblong-ovate (inner narrower, all usually with filiform but definitely thickened keel and slight apiculum), tomentose (at least bases).

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

in loose, corymbiform arrays.

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

ridged, smooth to weakly papillate-roughened.

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).

= 28.

= 28.