Flora of North America species comparison

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

(1–)2–5, gray-green, tomentose.

deciduous, gray-green;

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

persistent, basal rosettes persistent, gray-green to white;

blades ovate, 2–4 × 0.5–1 cm, 2–3-pinnately or -ternately lobed, lobes linear to narrowly oblong, apices acute, faces moderately to densely sericeous.

broadly ovoid, 2–3 × 3–5 mm.

hemispheric, 3–4 × 3.5–4 mm.

pistillate 9–20;

bisexual 30–50;

corollas 1–2 mm, glandular.

pistillate 8–10; functionally staminate 15–30;

corollas (or lobes) yellow-orange or deep red, 2.2–3.5.

gray-green, densely sericeous.

(obscurely scarious) densely tomentose-villous.

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

(proximal sessile, distal pedunculate) in (leafy) spiciform arrays 4–9(–12) × (0.5–)1–5 cm.

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

oblong-lanceoloid, somewhat compressed, 0.4–1 mm, faintly nerved, glabrous.

= 18.