Flora of North America species comparison

(1–)2–5, gray-green, tomentose.

1–5, erect, whitish gray, densely tomentose.

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.

mostly basal (cauline 1–4), greenish to whitish green;

blades (basal) 1–4.5 × 0.6–1.5 cm, 1–2-ternately to palmately lobed (flowering-stem blades 3-lobed), faces sparsely hairy.

hemispheric, 3–4 × 3.5–4 mm.

campanulate or hemispheric, 3.5–6 × 6–11 mm.

pistillate 8–10; functionally staminate 15–30;

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

pistillate 9–10;

bisexual 20–30;

corollas yellow or reddish black, 2–3 mm, sometimes glandular.

(obscurely scarious) densely tomentose-villous.

lanceolate (margins brown), pilose.

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

(2–20, peduncles 0 or to 25 mm) in subcapitate to capitate arrays 2–3 × 2–3 cm.

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

oblong, 1.5–2.5 mm, (apices flattened) glabrous.