Flora of North America species comparison

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

1–5, erect, whitish gray, densely tomentose.

deciduous, gray-green;

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

mostly basal (cauline 1–4), greenish to whitish green;

blades (basal) 1–4.5 × 0.6–1.5 cm, 1–2-ternately to palmately lobed (flowering-stem blades 3-lobed), faces sparsely hairy.

broadly ovoid, 2–3 × 3–5 mm.

campanulate or hemispheric, 3.5–6 × 6–11 mm.

pistillate 9–20;

bisexual 30–50;

corollas 1–2 mm, glandular.

pistillate 9–10;

bisexual 20–30;

corollas yellow or reddish black, 2–3 mm, sometimes glandular.

gray-green, densely sericeous.

lanceolate (margins brown), pilose.

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

(2–20, peduncles 0 or to 25 mm) in subcapitate to capitate arrays 2–3 × 2–3 cm.

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

oblong, 1.5–2.5 mm, (apices flattened) glabrous.

= 18.