Flora of North America species comparison

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

pale gray, glabrous.

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, gray-green;

blades broadly cuneate, 1.5–4 × 0.5–2 cm, deeply 3-lobed (lobes 1–1.4 mm wide, acute; cauline leaves smaller, mostly 3-lobed).

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

globose or turbinate, 2–4 × 1.5–3 mm.

pistillate 5–20; functionally staminate 12–30;

corollas pale yellow, sparsely hairy or glabrous.

3–11;

corollas 2–2.5 mm, glandular (style branches included).

(margins scarious) glabrous or villous-tomentose.

broadly lanceolate (margins scarious, obscured by indument), canescent.

(pedunculate) in (mostly leafless) paniculiform arrays.

in paniculiform or spiciform arrays (5–)8–15(–35) × (0.5–)1–5 cm.

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

(columnar, unequally ribbed) 1.8–2.3 mm, glabrous or resinous.