Flora of North America species comparison

silvery, canescent (bark gray-brown).

(1–)2–5, gray-green, tomentose.

persistent, light gray-green;

blades narrowly cuneate, 0.5–3 × 0.2–0.5 cm, entire or 3(–5)-lobed (lobes 1.5–2 mm, less than 1/3 blade lengths, acute), faces silvery 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.

globose, 2–3 × 1.5–2.5 mm.

hemispheric, 3–4 × 3.5–4 mm.

pistillate 0–2 (raylike, laminae to 1 mm);

bisexual 1–3;

corollas 1–1.5 mm (style branches of ray florets elongate, exsert, epapillate, tips acute; of disc florets, short, truncate, papillate).

pistillate 8–10; functionally staminate 15–30;

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

(8–15) ovate, canescent or tomentose.

(obscurely scarious) densely tomentose-villous.

(usually nodding) in arrays 6–25 × 1–4 cm (branches erect, somewhat curved).

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

(ellipsoid, 5-ribbed) 0.8–1 mm, glabrous.

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

= 18, 36, 72.