Flora of North America species comparison

light brown to gray-green (woody, somewhat pliable, leafy), persistently canescent to glabrescent.

relatively numerous, ascending or prostrate, gray, simple or branched (slender, wandlike, soft, bases woody and brittle), densely canescent.

deciduous, whitish gray or green to dark gray-green;

blades narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, 1.5–8 × 0.2–1 cm, usually entire, sometimes irregularly lobed, sparsely to densely hairy.

cauline, gray-green;

blades linear-oblong, 3–5 × 1–2 cm, mostly 3-lobed (lobes 1–2 mm wide), faces gray-hairy.

(subtended by green, leaflike bracts) narrowly to broadly campanulate, 3–4 × 2–5 mm.

broadly campanulate, 2.5 × 4–4.5 mm.

4–20;

corollas 2–3 mm, resinous (style branches ellipsoid, to 2.3 mm, exsert, gland-dotted).

pistillate 0;

bisexual 20–50;

corollas pale yellow, 1.2–1.5 mm, glandular.

ovate or lanceolate (scarious margins nearly invisible), densely canescent.

broadly ovate, densely hairy.

in (congested, leafy) paniculiform arrays 10–20 × 0.2–7 cm.

(usually erect, sometimes nodding) in (leafy) paniculiform arrays 10–25 × 3–5(–7) cm.

(light brown) 1–2.3 mm, resinous.

(light brown) ellipsoid (ribbed), 0.5 mm, resinous.