Flora of North America species comparison

gray-green (sometimes woody proximally), densely canescent to glabrescent (hairs appressed).

gray-green to brown, glabrate (diffusely branched from bases, brittle).

deciduous, gray-green;

blades broadly ovate, 3–8 × 1–4 cm, mostly pinnately lobed (basal 2–3-pinnatifid, lobes obovate), faces densely canescent.

(vegetative stems) persistent, gray-green;

blades broadly to narrowly cuneate, 3–10 × 2–5 mm, lobed (lobes 3, oblong-linear, to 1/3 blade lengths, mostly 1–3 mm wide, flat, obtuse, laterals sometimes 2–3-fid; leaves on flowering stems deciduous, blades narrowly cuneate, deeply 3-lobed), faces densely hairy (not sticky resinous).

broadly ovoid, 2–3 × 3–5 mm.

campanulate or globose-ovoid, (1.5–)2–4(–5) × 1.5–4.5 mm.

pistillate 9–20;

bisexual 30–50;

corollas 1–2 mm, glandular.

4–6(–10);

corollas 1.5–2 mm, glabrous.

gray-green, densely sericeous.

(margins green) ovate (outer) to oblong, pubescent or tomentose.

(nodding) in open (diffusely branched), paniculiform arrays 10–20(–35) × (2–)10–13(–15) cm.

usually borne singly, rarely (1–4, erect, mostly sessile, in pedunculate clusters) in spiciform or paniculiform arrays 2–9 × 0.5–2 cm (branches slender).

(± cylindric, slightly curved, obscurely nerved), ± 0.5 mm, glabrous (shiny).

(light brown) 0.7–0.8 mm, resinous.

= 18.