Flora of North America species comparison

(1–)2–5, gray-green, tomentose.

1–9, erect, gray-green, lanate.

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 (in rosettes, cauline 2–5, scattered on flowering stems);

blades (basal) broadly oblanceolate, 0.5–0.8 × 0.5–0.7 cm, relatively deeply lobed (lobes 3–5, acute; cauline blades 0.5–1 cm, entire or pinnately lobed, lobes 3–5), faces densely tomentose to sericeous (hairs 1–2 mm).

hemispheric, 3–4 × 3.5–4 mm.

turbinate, 3–4 × 3–5 mm.

pistillate 8–10; functionally staminate 15–30;

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

pistillate 4–5;

bisexual 3–4;

corollas yellow or tan, 1.5–2, glandular (style branches blunt, not fringed).

(obscurely scarious) densely tomentose-villous.

lanceolate or ovate, hairy.

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

in corymbiform arrays 0.5–2.5 × 0.5–2.5 cm (subtended by white-sericeous bracts).

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

(brown) linear-oblong, ca. 2 mm, (apices flat), glabrous.

= 36, 54.