Flora of North America species comparison

relatively numerous, erect, green to brown or reddish brown, somewhat woody, glabrous.

1, erect, often reddish, simple (finely striate), glabrous.

proximal blades bright green and glabrous or gray-green and sparsely hairy, 5–8 cm;

cauline blades bright green (gray-green in desert forms), linear, lanceolate, or oblong, 1–7 × 0.1–0.5(–0.9) cm, mostly entire, sometimes irregularly lobed, acute, usually glabrous, sometimes glabrescent (deserts).

cauline, green or yellow-green (sessile);

blades broadly lanceolate to ovate, 4–10(–13) × 1.5–4 cm, 1–2-pinnately lobed (ultimate lobes coarsely toothed), faces glabrous.

globose, 2–3 × 2–3.5(–6) mm.

globose, 2–4 × (1.5–)2–4 mm.

pistillate 6–25; functionally staminate 8–20;

corollas pale yellow, 1.8–2 mm, eglandular or sparsely glandular.

pistillate 6–25;

bisexual 15–40;

corollas pale yellow, ca. 2 mm, glabrous.

(light brown, broadly lanceolate, membranous): margins broadly hyaline, glabrous.

(green) broadly elliptic to obovate, glabrous.

in terminal or lateral, leafy, paniculiform arrays 15–45 × 6–30 cm; appearing ball-like on slender, sometimes nodding peduncles.

(erect, subsessile) in (leafy) paniculiform to spiciform arrays 12–35(–40) × 2–4 cm (lateral branches relatively short).

oblong, 0.5–0.8 mm, faintly nerved, glabrous.

ellipsoid (4–5-nerved), 0.2–0.9 mm, glabrous.

= 18.

= 18.