Flora of North America species comparison

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

5–8, silver-gray, 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).

persistent, silver-green, mostly basal;

proximalmost blades 3–4 × 1–1.5 cm, 1-pinnately lobed, lobes mostly 2–3 mm wide;

blades of flowering stems somewhat reduced, (1–)2–3(–5) × 0.15 cm, mostly entire;

apices rounded, faces densely hairy.

globose, 2–3 × 2–3.5(–6) mm.

broadly campanulate, 4–5(–7) × 2–3 mm.

pistillate 6–25; functionally staminate 8–20;

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

pistillate 8–10 (2–2.8 mm); functionally staminate 22–32;

corollas pale yellow, 2.2–4.5 mm, glandular.

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

(ovate, margins broadly scarious) densely tomentose.

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

borne singly or (clustered in 2s and 3s on lateral branches; peduncles 0 or to 5 mm) in paniculiform arrays, (2–)4–9 × 1–1.5(–2) cm.

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

(light brown) ellipsoid, flattened (faintly nerved), 1.5–2 mm, sparsely hairy, glabrous or resinous.

= 18.