Flora of North America species comparison

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

mostly 3–8, ascending, brown to gray-green, simple (bases curved, somewhat woody), sparsely to densely tomentose.

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, bicolor (± gray-green);

blades narrowly elliptic, 0.1–2.5(–3) × 0.5–1 cm (gradually smaller distally), relatively deeply pinnatifid (lobes 3–5), faces densely tomentose (abaxial) to sparsely hairy (adaxial).

globose, 2–3 × 2–3.5(–6) mm.

campanulate, 2–2.5(–3) × 1.5–3 mm.

pistillate 6–25; functionally staminate 8–20;

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

pistillate 1–5;

bisexual 7–25;

corollas pale yellow, 1–2 mm, glandular-pubescent.

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

lanceolate, gray-tomentose.

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

(usually nodding) in (leafy) paniculiform arrays 10–30 × 3–9 cm (branches erect).

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

(light brown) cylindro-elliptic, ca. 0.5 mm, (curved at summits, scarcely nerved), glabrous (shining).

= 18.

= 18.