Flora of North America species comparison

erect, hairy.

basal and proximalmost cauline withering by flowering;

cauline sessile;

blades obovate, 10–40 × 3–10 mm, margins entire, apices acuminate to slightly cuspidate, faces hairy, resinous.

bracts broadly lanceolate to narrowly ovate, hairy.

5–8 mm.

fusiform-obconic, 1–3 mm, densely strigose;

pappi: inner series 6–8 mm.

2–5;

corolla tubes 3–4 mm, laminae 3–6 mm.

6–11;

corolla tubes 4–6 mm, lobes 1–2 mm.

in 4–5 series, outer 2–3 mm, first mid 3–4 mm, second mid 4–6 mm, puberulent.

2–4 per branch, in corymbiform arrays.

= 18.