Flora of North America species comparison

(1–)2–5, gray-green, tomentose.

gray-green, 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.

persistent, gray-green;

blades (basal) oblanceolate, 2–7 × 0.1 cm, 2-pinnately lobed (lobes linear or oblanceolate; cauline blades smaller, 1–2-pinnate or entire), faces silky-canescent.

hemispheric, 3–4 × 3.5–4 mm.

broadly globose or subglobose, 4 × 4–7 mm.

pistillate 8–10; functionally staminate 15–30;

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

pistillate 6–13;

bisexual 15–30;

corollas 1.5–2.5 mm, hairy (at least on lobes).

(obscurely scarious) densely tomentose-villous.

green (margins black or dark brown), densely villous.

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

(5–22) in spiciform arrays 5–9 × 1–1.5 cm.

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

0.8–1 mm, glabrous.

= 18.