Flora of North America species comparison

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

relatively numerous, brown or grayish green.

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.

± 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.

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

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

pistillate 5–20; functionally staminate 12–30;

corollas pale yellow, sparsely hairy or glabrous.

8–18(–27);

corollas 2.5–3.5, glabrous.

(margins scarious) glabrous or villous-tomentose.

lanceolate, sparsely to densely hairy.

(pedunculate) in (mostly leafless) paniculiform arrays.

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

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

1–1.5 mm, glabrous or resinous.

= 18, 36, 54, 72.