Flora of North America species comparison

(1–)2–5, gray-green, tomentose.

relatively numerous, ascending or prostrate, gray, simple or branched (slender, wandlike, soft, bases woody and brittle), densely 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.

cauline, gray-green;

blades linear-oblong, 3–5 × 1–2 cm, mostly 3-lobed (lobes 1–2 mm wide), faces gray-hairy.

hemispheric, 3–4 × 3.5–4 mm.

broadly campanulate, 2.5 × 4–4.5 mm.

pistillate 8–10; functionally staminate 15–30;

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

pistillate 0;

bisexual 20–50;

corollas pale yellow, 1.2–1.5 mm, glandular.

(obscurely scarious) densely tomentose-villous.

broadly ovate, densely hairy.

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

(usually erect, sometimes nodding) in (leafy) paniculiform arrays 10–25 × 3–5(–7) cm.

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

(light brown) ellipsoid (ribbed), 0.5 mm, resinous.