Flora of North America species comparison

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

pale gray, glabrous.

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, gray-green;

blades broadly cuneate, 1.5–4 × 0.5–2 cm, deeply 3-lobed (lobes 1–1.4 mm wide, acute; cauline leaves smaller, mostly 3-lobed).

globose, 2–3 × 2–3.5(–6) mm.

globose or turbinate, 2–4 × 1.5–3 mm.

pistillate 6–25; functionally staminate 8–20;

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

3–11;

corollas 2–2.5 mm, glandular (style branches included).

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

broadly lanceolate (margins scarious, obscured by indument), canescent.

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

in paniculiform or spiciform arrays (5–)8–15(–35) × (0.5–)1–5 cm.

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

(columnar, unequally ribbed) 1.8–2.3 mm, glabrous or resinous.

= 18.