Flora of North America species comparison

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

1, erect, often reddish, simple (finely striate), glabrous.

deciduous, gray-green;

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

cauline, green or yellow-green (sessile);

blades broadly lanceolate to ovate, 4–10(–13) × 1.5–4 cm, 1–2-pinnately lobed (ultimate lobes coarsely toothed), faces glabrous.

broadly ovoid, 2–3 × 3–5 mm.

globose, 2–4 × (1.5–)2–4 mm.

pistillate 9–20;

bisexual 30–50;

corollas 1–2 mm, glandular.

pistillate 6–25;

bisexual 15–40;

corollas pale yellow, ca. 2 mm, glabrous.

gray-green, densely sericeous.

(green) broadly elliptic to obovate, glabrous.

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

(erect, subsessile) in (leafy) paniculiform to spiciform arrays 12–35(–40) × 2–4 cm (lateral branches relatively short).

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

ellipsoid (4–5-nerved), 0.2–0.9 mm, glabrous.

= 18.

= 18.