Flora of North America species comparison

short-creeping;

scales golden brown to medium brown, concolored, iridescent, margins entire or occasionally with single broad tooth near base.

short-creeping;

scales bronzy deep yellow, concolored, margins entire.

lax-arching or pendent, closely spaced, 15–75 cm.

arching to stiffly erect, often densely clustered, 38–75(–90) cm.

0.5–1.5 mm diam., glabrous, occasionally glaucous.

1–3 mm diam., glabrous, often glaucous.

lanceolate, pinnate, 10–45 × 4–15 cm, glabrous, gradually reduced distally;

proximal pinnae 3(–4)-pinnate;

rachis straight to flexuous, glabrous, not glaucous.

fan-shaped to funnel-shaped, pseudopedate, 1-pinnate distally, 10–35 × 10–35(–45) cm, glabrous;

proximal pinnae 2–7-pinnate;

rachis straight, glabrous, often glaucous.

various, generally cuneate or fan-shaped to irregularly rhombic (plants in American southwest occasionally with segments nearly round), about as long as broad;

base broadly to narrowly cuneate;

margins shallowly to deeply lobed, incisions 0.5–7 mm, occasionally ± laciniate, sharply denticulate in sterile segments;

apex rounded to acute.

long-triangular, ca. 2.5 times as long as broad;

basiscopic margin oblique;

acroscopic margin lobed, lobes separated by narrow (less than 1 mm) incisions;

apex acute, usually entire.

transversely oblong or crescent-shaped, 1–3(–7) mm, glabrous.

transversely oblong, mostly 2–5(–10) mm, glabrous.

mostly 40–50 µm diam. 2n = 120.

mostly 45–58 µm diam. 2n = 116.

stalks 0.5–3.5 mm, dark color extending into segment base.

stalks (0.4–)0.6–1.5(–1.9) mm, dark color commonly entering into segment base.