Flora of North America species comparison

erect.

erect.

opposite (proximal) and alternate;

petioles 25–35(–60+) mm;

blades deltate to lanceolate or elliptic, 25–55(–90+) × 20–30(–50+) mm, 1–2-pinnately lobed, bases cuneate, ultimate margins entire or toothed, abaxial faces sparsely pilosulous to strigillose, adaxial faces strigillose, both gland-dotted.

mostly alternate (sometimes crowded at bases of stems);

petioles 5–35(–55) mm;

blades deltate to elliptic, 15–35(–75) × 12–25(–45) mm overall, laciniately (1–)2(–3)-pinnately lobed, bases cuneate to truncate, ultimate margins entire, abaxial and adaxial faces ± strigillose to sericeous (often grayish) and gland-dotted.

peduncles 0.5–1.5 mm;

involucres shallowly cup-shaped (usually without black nerves), 2–3+ mm diam., glabrous or hispid to pilosulous;

florets 12–20+.

peduncles 0.5–6 mm;

involucres obliquely cup-shaped, 3–5 mm diam., ± strigillose;

florets 8–25+.

clustered, proximal to staminates;

florets 1.

clustered, proximal to staminates;

florets 1.

bodies ± globose to pyriform, 2–3 mm, ± pilosulous, spines or tubercles 3–5+, near middles or distal, ± conic to acerose, 0.1–0.5+ mm, tips straight.

bodies ± fusiform, 2–2.5 mm, strigillose, spines or tubercles 0 or 1–5, mostly distal, stoutly conic, 0.1–0.5 mm, tips straight.

= 34, 36.

= 72.