Flora of North America species comparison

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

(5–20), gray-green, glabrescent.

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).

persistent, gray-green, mostly basal;

proximal blades reduced, mostly less than 1 cm, lobed or entire;

distal blades 1–2 × 0.5–0.8 cm, 1–2-ternately lobed, lobes 1–2 mm wide, apices acute, faces densely tomentose.

globose, 2–3 × 2–3.5(–6) mm.

globose, 3–4 × 3–4 mm.

pistillate 6–25; functionally staminate 8–20;

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

pistillate 4–7; functionally staminate 5–9;

corollas yellow, usually red-tinged, 2–3 mm, glabrous.

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

(margins scarious, obscured) white-tomentose.

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

(mostly 6–15, 1 or 3–4 on lateral branches; mostly erect, sessile or pedunculate) in racemiform-paniculiform arrays, 5–8 × 0.5–0.8 cm.

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

(brown) ellipsoid (angled), 0.8–1 mm, (sometimes with white ribs) glabrous.

= 18.