Flora of North America species comparison

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

usually 10+ (rising beyond basal leaves, decumbent), whitish gray, (ca. 5 mm diam., densely leafy) densely hairy.

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.

persistent, gray-green;

blades broadly lanceolate, faces woolly-hairy;

proximalmost blades 3–8 × 2–6 cm, 2–3-pinnatifid, lobes linear (to 2 mm wide);

cauline somewhat reduced, 2–3 × 0.8–1.2 cm;

apices acute, faces hairy.

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

globose, 3–4.5 × 3–4.5 mm.

pistillate 5–20; functionally staminate 12–30;

corollas pale yellow, sparsely hairy or glabrous.

pistillate 5–20; functionally staminate 12–25;

corollas pale yellow (broadly tubular), ca. 2 mm, glabrous.

(margins scarious) glabrous or villous-tomentose.

lanceolate, margins obscured by indument, hairs straight.

(pedunculate) in (mostly leafless) paniculiform arrays.

(sessile, clustered in glomerules) in (densely leafy) paniculiform to spiciform arrays 10–20(–30) × 1–4 cm.

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

ellipsoid (faintly nerved), 1–1.5 mm, glabrous.