Flora of North America species comparison

softly pilose to woolly (hairs spreading, 1–4 mm, longer ones toward bases).

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 oblong to oblong-lanceolate (not lobed), margins entire or serrate, apices acute to obtuse, faces softly pilose to woolly, gland-dotted;

basal petiolate, 5–12 × 0.5–2 cm, bases attenuate;

cauline sessile, (elliptic to pandurate) 1.5–10 × 1–4 cm (mid largest, bases cuneate to auriculate).

conic to columnar;

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

conic to hemispheric;

paleae 5–6.5 mm, apices acute, abaxial tips hirsute and gland-dotted.

7–15;

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

10–16;

laminae linear to oblanceolate, 20–40 × 4–7 mm, abaxially hairy and gland-dotted.

250–400+;

corollas yellowish green, 3–4 mm;

style branches ca. 1 mm, apices acute.

200–400+;

corolla bases yellowish green, otherwise brown-purple, 3–4.2 mm;

style branches ca. 1.5 mm, apices acute to obtuse.

to 1.5 cm.

to 1.5 cm (faces hairy and gland-dotted).

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.

2.5–3.5 mm;

pappi 0 or coroniform, to 0.1 mm.

15–35 × 14–22 mm.

10–20 × 12–18 mm.

= 36.

= 38.