Flora of North America species comparison

(1–)2–5, gray-green, tomentose.

(flowering) 1–5, erect, light brown, simple, strigillose or glabrate.

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.

basal (in rosettes) and cauline, gray-green;

blades oval, 2–10(–12) cm (basal) or 1–1.5 × 0.4–0.6 cm (cauline), 1–3-palmately lobed, faces sparsely to densely strigillose.

hemispheric, 3–4 × 3.5–4 mm.

broadly campanulate, 3–6 × 4.5–8 mm.

pistillate 8–10; functionally staminate 15–30;

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

pistillate 6–7;

bisexual 15–26;

corollas mostly yellow, sometimes red-tinged, 1–2 mm, glabrous or glabrate.

(obscurely scarious) densely tomentose-villous.

(greenish, color often obscured by indument) ovate or lanceolate (margins dark brown), sparsely to densely tomentose.

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

(erect or spreading, some nodding, peduncles 0 or to 30 mm) in racemiform or spiciform arrays 1–6 × 1–2 cm.

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

oblong (ribbed), 1–1.5 mm, glabrous.

= 18, 36, 72, 90.