Flora of North America species comparison

short-creeping;

scales dark reddish brown, concolored, margins entire.

short-creeping or suberect;

scales bronzy deep yellow, concolored, margins entire.

arching, clustered, 20–37 cm.

lax-arching to stiffly erect or pendent, often densely clustered, 15–110 cm.

1–2 mm diam., adaxially hispid, not glaucous.

0.5–3 mm diam., glabrous, often glaucous.

lanceolate, pinnate or occasionally pseudopedate, 1-pinnate distally, 12–18 × 6.5–8 cm;

proximal pinnae 1–4-pinnate;

indument of light-colored, sparse, multicellular hairs;

rachis straight, densely hispid, not glaucous.

fan-shaped to funnel-shaped, pseudopedate, 1-pinnate distally, 5–45 × 5–45 cm;

proximal pinnae (1–)2–7-pinnate;

rachis straight, glabrous, often with glaucous bloom.

oblong to long-triangular, ca. 2 times as long as broad, progressively reduced toward apex of penultimate divisions;

basiscopic margin oblique;

acroscopic margin of fertile segments crenulate, sterile segments sharply denticulate;

apex obtuse or acute.

oblong, long-triangular, or occasionally reniform, ca. 2.5–4 times as long as broad;

basiscopic margin straight to oblique, or occasionally excavate;

acroscopic margin lobed, lobes separated by narrow to broad incisions 0.2–3 mm wide;

apex acute to obtuse, obtuse apices divided into ± angular lobes separated by sinuses 0.6–4 mm deep, margins of lobes sharply denticulate.

± round, 0.6–0.9 mm diam., covered with reddish brown, stiff, needlelike bristles.

transversely oblong to crescent-shaped, 0.2–3.5(–6) mm, glabrous.

mostly 40–60 µm diam.

mostly 37–47 µm diam. 2n = 58.

stalks 0.2–0.3 mm, dark color generally entering into segment base.

stalks 0.2–0.9(–1.3) mm, dark color entering into segment base or not.