Flora of North America species comparison

± erect;

internodes 0.1–1(–5+) mm, ± villous.

decumbent to erect;

internodes (0.5–)2–6(–12+) mm, usually densely piloso-hirsute, sometimes strigoso-scabrellous (surfaces usually hidden by hairs).

basal and cauline, ± spatulate, 6–12(–15+) × 1–3+ mm, little, if at all, fleshy or notably thickened, faces of earliest leaves glabrous or glabrate, of later leaves ± villous to pilosulous.

basal and cauline, blades spatulate to narrowly oblanceolate, 3–12(–40+) × 1–2(–4+) mm, not fleshy, ± strigoso-scabrellous to strigillose.

± hemispheric, (12–)16–30+ mm diam.

± campanulate to hemispheric, (6–)10–15(–20) mm diam.

21–65+;

corollas white adaxially, laminae 8–12(–16+) mm, glandular-puberulent abaxially.

(8–)13–34+;

corollas white or pinkish adaxially, laminae 5–8(–12+) mm, abaxially usually glabrous, sometimes glandular-puberulent at bases.

100–150+;

corollas 4–6+ mm.

60–80+;

corollas 4.5–6.5+ mm.

45–60+ in 5+ series, the longer narrowly lanceolate to subulate, 9–11 mm (l/w = 7–9), apices attenuate, abaxial faces ± pilose.

16–28+ in 3–4+ series, the longer ± lance-ovate to lanceolate, (6–)8–9(–12+) mm (l/w = 2.5–5), apices acute, abaxial faces strigose.

± sessile or at ends of leafy stems.

at tips of stems (usually surpassed by leaves).

3–4.5 mm, faces hairy, hair tips entire;

pappi readily falling, of 25–30 subulate to setiform scales 5–8 mm (± connate basally).

3.5–4.5+ mm, faces hairy, hair tips glochidiform;

pappi persistent;

on ray cypselae 15–30 lanceolate or subulate to setiform scales 0.3–0.6 or 4–6+ mm;

on disc cypselae 15–30+ subulate to setiform scales 4–6+ mm.

= 18.