Flora of North America species comparison

1–3, erect, reddish brown, simple (leafy), glabrous or glabrate.

(1–)2–5, gray-green, tomentose.

basal (in rosettes, petiolate) and cauline, bicolor (white and green);

blades ovate, 3–7(–20) × 2–4(–6) cm, 2–3-pinnately-lobed (lobes elliptic, 2–6 mm wide; cauline sessile, smaller), faces tomentose (abaxial) or glabrous or glabrescent (adaxial), glandular.

persistent, basal rosettes persistent, gray-green to white;

blades ovate, 2–4 × 0.5–1 cm, 2–3-pinnately or -ternately lobed, lobes linear to narrowly oblong, apices acute, faces moderately to densely sericeous.

broadly ovate, 3–5 × 4–5(–6) mm.

hemispheric, 3–4 × 3.5–4 mm.

pistillate 4–5(–13), (1–1.5 mm);

bisexual 25–35;

corollas yellow, 1.5–2 mm, glabrous.

pistillate 8–10; functionally staminate 15–30;

corollas (or lobes) yellow-orange or deep red, 2.2–3.5.

broadly ovate, sparsely hairy.

(obscurely scarious) densely tomentose-villous.

(nodding, peduncles 0 or 2) in paniculiform to racemiform arrays 10–35 × 2–4 cm (often 1-sided).

(proximal sessile, distal pedunculate) in (leafy) spiciform arrays 4–9(–12) × (0.5–)1–5 cm.

elliptic, 0.5–0.8 mm, glabrous.

oblong-lanceoloid, somewhat compressed, 0.4–1 mm, faintly nerved, glabrous.