OregonFlora species comparison

prostrate or decumbent; simple to much branched; ± densely pilose to villous or strigose.

alternate;

blades lanceolate, broadly elliptic, obovate, or triangular;

surfaces strigose-canescent, petiolate.

cup-shaped.

1.

8–30+.

of staminate heads connate, sometimes with black midribs;

tips shallowly lobed;

surfaces glabrous or strigose; of pistillate heads erect, separate, marginally glabrous or pilose.

ovoid, 5–10 mm, variously pubescent;

spines flattened, spreading or arched outward, 0.5–2 mm.

=36.