Flora of North America species comparison

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

1–9, erect, gray-green, lanate.

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 (in rosettes, cauline 2–5, scattered on flowering stems);

blades (basal) broadly oblanceolate, 0.5–0.8 × 0.5–0.7 cm, relatively deeply lobed (lobes 3–5, acute; cauline blades 0.5–1 cm, entire or pinnately lobed, lobes 3–5), faces densely tomentose to sericeous (hairs 1–2 mm).

broadly ovoid, 2–3 × 3–5 mm.

turbinate, 3–4 × 3–5 mm.

pistillate 9–20;

bisexual 30–50;

corollas 1–2 mm, glandular.

pistillate 4–5;

bisexual 3–4;

corollas yellow or tan, 1.5–2, glandular (style branches blunt, not fringed).

gray-green, densely sericeous.

lanceolate or ovate, hairy.

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

in corymbiform arrays 0.5–2.5 × 0.5–2.5 cm (subtended by white-sericeous bracts).

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

(brown) linear-oblong, ca. 2 mm, (apices flat), glabrous.

= 18.

= 36, 54.