Flora of North America species comparison

(1–)2–5, gray-green, tomentose.

relatively numerous, erect, green to brown or reddish brown, somewhat woody, glabrous.

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.

proximal blades bright green and glabrous or gray-green and sparsely hairy, 5–8 cm;

cauline blades bright green (gray-green in desert forms), linear, lanceolate, or oblong, 1–7 × 0.1–0.5(–0.9) cm, mostly entire, sometimes irregularly lobed, acute, usually glabrous, sometimes glabrescent (deserts).

hemispheric, 3–4 × 3.5–4 mm.

globose, 2–3 × 2–3.5(–6) mm.

pistillate 8–10; functionally staminate 15–30;

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

pistillate 6–25; functionally staminate 8–20;

corollas pale yellow, 1.8–2 mm, eglandular or sparsely glandular.

(obscurely scarious) densely tomentose-villous.

(light brown, broadly lanceolate, membranous): margins broadly hyaline, glabrous.

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

in terminal or lateral, leafy, paniculiform arrays 15–45 × 6–30 cm; appearing ball-like on slender, sometimes nodding peduncles.

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

oblong, 0.5–0.8 mm, faintly nerved, glabrous.

= 18.