Flora of North America species comparison

± erect;

internodes 0.1–1+ mm, ± strigose.

± erect;

internodes 0.1–1 mm, ± villous.

basal and cauline, blades ± spatulate, 5–10(–15+) × 1.5–3+ mm, ± fleshy, faces sparsely strigose or glabrate.

basal and cauline, ± spatulate, 7–10(–20) × 1.5–2(–4) mm little, it at all, fleshy, faces ± villous or sericeous.

± campanulate, 6–10 mm diam.

± urceolate, 6–12(–16) mm diam.

8–21;

corollas white or pinkish adaxially, laminae 4–8 mm, abaxially usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely glandular-puberulent.

12–30+;

corollas white to pinkish adaxially, laminae 3–12 mm, abaxially usually glandular-puberulent, sometimes glabrous.

20–40+;

corollas 3–4 mm.

16–30+;

corollas 4–5+ mm.

20–28 in 3–4+ series, the longer ± lanceolate, 5–7 mm (l/w = 2.5–5), sometimes glabrate, apices obtuse to acute, abaxial faces usually ± strigillose.

16–24+ in 3–4 series, the longer lance-ovate to lanceolate, 6–8(–9) mm (l/w = 4–7), apices usually acute, sometimes attenuate, abaxial faces ± villous to strigillose.

± sessile.

± sessile.

2–3.5 mm, faces hairy, hair tips entire or forked;

pappi persistent, 15–30 subulate to setiform scales 3–5 mm.

2.5–4 mm, faces hairy, hair tips glochidiform or forked;

pappi readily falling, of 14–30 subulate to setiform scales 4.5–6+ mm (± connate basally).

= 27 (apomicts).