Flora of North America species comparison

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

relatively numerous, brown or grayish green.

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).

± deciduous (by late summer, turning yellow);

blades lanceolate, oblanceolate, or cuneate, 2.5–5.5 × 0.8–1.2+ cm, entire or irregularly 3–6-lobed (lobes to 1/3 blade lengths, 1.5+ mm wide, rounded or acute; leaves of flowering stems usually smaller, entire), faces ± sericeous or tomentose.

globose, 2–3 × 2–3.5(–6) mm.

ovoid or lanceoloid, (2.5–)4–6(–7) mm.

pistillate 6–25; functionally staminate 8–20;

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

8–18(–27);

corollas 2.5–3.5, glabrous.

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

lanceolate, sparsely to densely hairy.

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

(erect) in (leafy) paniculiform arrays 8–15(–25) × 0.5–3(–4) cm.

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

1–1.5 mm, glabrous or resinous.

= 18.

= 18, 36, 54, 72.