Flora of North America species comparison

1–20, erect, brown to gray-green, simple, hairy or glabrescent.

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

cauline, bicolor (white and green to light gray-green);

blades narrowly elliptic to widely oblanceolate, (1–)3–11(–15) × 0.5–2(–6) cm (proximal with 3–5 lateral lobes, distal mostly entire), faces sparsely tomentose (abaxial) to sparsely hairy (adaxial).

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.

narrowly turbinate to campanulate, 2–3 × 2–4 mm.

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

pistillate 6–10;

bisexual 6–25;

corollas pale yellow, 1–1.5 mm, glabrous, sometimes glandular.

4–20;

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

(green to gray) ovate, tomentose to pubescent.

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

(usually nodding) in (leafy) paniculiform arrays 10–30 × 3–9 cm (branches widely spreading, ascending, stout).

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

ellipsoid, 0.5–1 mm, glabrous.

(light brown) 1–2.3 mm, resinous.

= 54.