Flora of North America species comparison

(1–)2–5, gray-green, tomentose.

relatively numerous, brown or grayish green.

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.

± deciduous (by late summer, turning yellow);

blades lanceolate, oblanceolate, or cuneate, 2.5–5.5 × 0.8–1.2+ cm, entire or irregularly 3–6-lobed (lobes to 1/3 blade lengths, 1.5+ mm wide, rounded or acute; leaves of flowering stems usually smaller, entire), faces ± sericeous or tomentose.

hemispheric, 3–4 × 3.5–4 mm.

ovoid or lanceoloid, (2.5–)4–6(–7) mm.

pistillate 8–10; functionally staminate 15–30;

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

8–18(–27);

corollas 2.5–3.5, glabrous.

(obscurely scarious) densely tomentose-villous.

lanceolate, sparsely to densely hairy.

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

(erect) in (leafy) paniculiform arrays 8–15(–25) × 0.5–3(–4) cm.

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

1–1.5 mm, glabrous or resinous.

= 18, 36, 54, 72.