Flora of North America species comparison

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

1–3, erect, reddish brown, simple, strigillose to spreading-hairy, or glabrous.

deciduous, gray-green;

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

basal (in rosettes, petioles to 12 cm) and cauline, greenish;

blades (basal) 2–3-pinnate, relatively deeply lobed (cauline sessile, 1–2-pinnately lobed to entire), faces sparsely hairy to pilose.

broadly ovoid, 2–3 × 3–5 mm.

globose, 3–5 × 4–8 mm.

pistillate 9–20;

bisexual 30–50;

corollas 1–2 mm, glandular.

pistillate 6–8;

bisexual 20–50;

corollas yellowish or yellow to reddish-tinged, 1–2 mm, hairy (hairs tangled).

gray-green, densely sericeous.

(greenish or yellowish) elliptic (margins hyaline, brownish), glabrous or sparsely hairy.

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

(10–70, spreading to nodding, peduncles 0 or to 10 mm) in spiciform arrays 2–5 × 0.5–1 or 8–18 × 1–4 cm.

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

oblong, 0.5–1 mm, glabrous.

= 18.