Flora of North America species comparison

usually 1–5, turning reddish brown, (often ribbed) tomentose or glabrous.

mostly 3–8, ascending, brown to gray-green, simple (bases curved, somewhat woody), sparsely to densely tomentose.

persistent or deciduous, mostly basal;

basal blades 4–12 cm;

cauline gradually reduced, 2–4 × 0.5–1.5 cm, 2–3-pinnately lobed, lobes linear to narrowly oblong, apices acute, faces densely to sparsely white-pubescent.

cauline, bicolor (± gray-green);

blades narrowly elliptic, 0.1–2.5(–3) × 0.5–1 cm (gradually smaller distally), relatively deeply pinnatifid (lobes 3–5), faces densely tomentose (abaxial) to sparsely hairy (adaxial).

broadly turbinate, 2.5–3(–5) × 2–3.5(–7) mm.

campanulate, 2–2.5(–3) × 1.5–3 mm.

pistillate 5–20; functionally staminate 12–30;

corollas pale yellow, sparsely hairy or glabrous.

pistillate 1–5;

bisexual 7–25;

corollas pale yellow, 1–2 mm, glandular-pubescent.

(margins scarious) glabrous or villous-tomentose.

lanceolate, gray-tomentose.

(pedunculate) in (mostly leafless) paniculiform arrays.

(usually nodding) in (leafy) paniculiform arrays 10–30 × 3–9 cm (branches erect).

oblong-lanceoloid, somewhat compressed, 0.8–1 mm, faintly nerved, glabrous.

(light brown) cylindro-elliptic, ca. 0.5 mm, (curved at summits, scarcely nerved), glabrous (shining).

= 18.