Flora of North America species comparison

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

1–3, erect, reddish brown, simple (leafy), glabrous or glabrate.

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.

basal (in rosettes, petiolate) and cauline, bicolor (white and green);

blades ovate, 3–7(–20) × 2–4(–6) cm, 2–3-pinnately-lobed (lobes elliptic, 2–6 mm wide; cauline sessile, smaller), faces tomentose (abaxial) or glabrous or glabrescent (adaxial), glandular.

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

broadly ovate, 3–5 × 4–5(–6) mm.

pistillate 5–20; functionally staminate 12–30;

corollas pale yellow, sparsely hairy or glabrous.

pistillate 4–5(–13), (1–1.5 mm);

bisexual 25–35;

corollas yellow, 1.5–2 mm, glabrous.

(margins scarious) glabrous or villous-tomentose.

broadly ovate, sparsely hairy.

(pedunculate) in (mostly leafless) paniculiform arrays.

(nodding, peduncles 0 or 2) in paniculiform to racemiform arrays 10–35 × 2–4 cm (often 1-sided).

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

elliptic, 0.5–0.8 mm, glabrous.