OregonFlora species comparison

erect.

to 50 cm but usually smaller, 10 cm or even shorter in specimens from exposed sites; bulbils absent.

short; less than 20% of the leaf length;

leaves sometimes subsessile; chaffy scales sparse to dense on the petiole and rachis.

1-pinnate; very narrow; more or less linear; to approximately 45 × 5 cm; widest in the mid-region and tapered to apex and base;

microscales narrow on abaxial surface;

adaxial surface glabrous.

oblonglanceolate, slightly falcate; up to 4 × 1.5 cm; lowest pinnae often broadly triangular, rarely overlapping; in 1 plane;

margins regularly spiny-toothed;

spines conspicuous, spreading or angled forward, acroscopic auricle large, broadly triangular; ovate, bearing several spreading spines.

with irregularly toothed indusia.

=82.