Flora of North America species comparison

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

(flowering) 1–5, erect, light brown, simple, strigillose or glabrate.

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).

basal (in rosettes) and cauline, gray-green;

blades oval, 2–10(–12) cm (basal) or 1–1.5 × 0.4–0.6 cm (cauline), 1–3-palmately lobed, faces sparsely to densely strigillose.

globose, 2–3 × 2–3.5(–6) mm.

broadly campanulate, 3–6 × 4.5–8 mm.

pistillate 6–25; functionally staminate 8–20;

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

pistillate 6–7;

bisexual 15–26;

corollas mostly yellow, sometimes red-tinged, 1–2 mm, glabrous or glabrate.

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

(greenish, color often obscured by indument) ovate or lanceolate (margins dark brown), sparsely to densely tomentose.

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

(erect or spreading, some nodding, peduncles 0 or to 30 mm) in racemiform or spiciform arrays 1–6 × 1–2 cm.

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

oblong (ribbed), 1–1.5 mm, glabrous.

= 18.

= 18, 36, 72, 90.