Flora of North America species comparison

(branches ascending) moderately hirsute (hairs spreading, 1+ mm).

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 linear to spatulate (not lobed), bases attenuate to cuneate, margins entire or remotely serrulate, apices acute to rounded, faces hirsute;

basal petiolate, 5–20 × 0.5–2 cm;

cauline petiolate (proximal) or sessile (distal), 2–15 × 0.4–1.5 cm.

conic to columnar;

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

mostly hemispheric;

paleae 5–6.5 mm, apices rounded to acute, abaxial tips glabrous.

7–15;

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

9–15;

laminae elliptic to oblanceolate, 10–25 × 5–8 mm, abaxially sparsely strigose.

250–400+;

corollas yellowish green, 3–4 mm;

style branches ca. 1 mm, apices acute.

150–250+;

corollas proximally greenish yellow, distally purple brown, 4–5.5 mm;

style branches ca. 1.5 mm, apices obtuse.

to 1.5 cm.

to 1.5 cm (faces hairy, more densely abaxially).

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

borne singly or (2–12) in loose, corymbiform arrays.

4–5.5 mm;

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

1.5–2.7 mm;

pappi coroniform, ca. 0.1 mm.

15–35 × 14–22 mm.

8–15 × 10–17 mm.

= 36.

= 38.