Flora of North America species comparison

(1–)2–5, gray-green, tomentose.

usually 10+ (rising beyond basal leaves, decumbent), whitish gray, (ca. 5 mm diam., densely leafy) densely hairy.

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.

persistent, gray-green;

blades broadly lanceolate, faces woolly-hairy;

proximalmost blades 3–8 × 2–6 cm, 2–3-pinnatifid, lobes linear (to 2 mm wide);

cauline somewhat reduced, 2–3 × 0.8–1.2 cm;

apices acute, faces hairy.

hemispheric, 3–4 × 3.5–4 mm.

globose, 3–4.5 × 3–4.5 mm.

pistillate 8–10; functionally staminate 15–30;

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

pistillate 5–20; functionally staminate 12–25;

corollas pale yellow (broadly tubular), ca. 2 mm, glabrous.

(obscurely scarious) densely tomentose-villous.

lanceolate, margins obscured by indument, hairs straight.

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

(sessile, clustered in glomerules) in (densely leafy) paniculiform to spiciform arrays 10–20(–30) × 1–4 cm.

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

ellipsoid (faintly nerved), 1–1.5 mm, glabrous.