Flora of North America species comparison

bluish green (heavily glaucous), blades lanceolate to elliptic (not lobed), leathery, bases attenuate, margins entire or remotely serrulate, apices acute, faces glabrous;

basal petiolate, 20–50 × 4–10 cm;

cauline petiolate or sessile, 10–25 × 2–8 cm.

blades 3–15 × 0.5–4 cm.

1–4 cm diam.

conic to columnar;

paleae 4–6.5 mm, apices acute, often attenuate, abaxial tips hairy.

7–15;

laminae elliptic to oblong, 25–40 × 8–14 mm, abaxially hairy.

spreading, eventually reflexed, elliptic to obovate, 12–30 × 7–15 mm, abaxially hirsute.

250–400+;

corollas yellowish green, 3–4 mm;

style branches ca. 1 mm, apices acute.

2.8–3.5 mm.

to 1.5 cm.

spreading to reflexed, green, linear to lanceolate, herbaceous.

borne singly or (2–10) in ± corymbiform arrays.

4–5.5 mm;

pappi coroniform or of ± connate scales, to 1.2 mm.

each face 4–5-striate and minutely cross-rugose, glabrous;

pappi 0 (cypselae each with ring of tan tissue at apex, ca. 0.1 mm).

15–35 × 14–22 mm.

= 36.

= 32.