Flora of North America species comparison

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

light brown to gray-green (woody, somewhat pliable, leafy), persistently canescent to glabrescent.

deciduous, gray-green;

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

deciduous, whitish gray or green to dark gray-green;

blades narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, 1.5–8 × 0.2–1 cm, usually entire, sometimes irregularly lobed, sparsely to densely hairy.

broadly ovoid, 2–3 × 3–5 mm.

(subtended by green, leaflike bracts) narrowly to broadly campanulate, 3–4 × 2–5 mm.

pistillate 9–20;

bisexual 30–50;

corollas 1–2 mm, glandular.

4–20;

corollas 2–3 mm, resinous (style branches ellipsoid, to 2.3 mm, exsert, gland-dotted).

gray-green, densely sericeous.

ovate or lanceolate (scarious margins nearly invisible), densely canescent.

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

in (congested, leafy) paniculiform arrays 10–20 × 0.2–7 cm.

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

(light brown) 1–2.3 mm, resinous.

= 18.