Flora of North America species comparison

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

1–20, erect, brown to gray-green, simple, hairy or glabrescent.

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.

cauline, bicolor (white and green to light gray-green);

blades narrowly elliptic to widely oblanceolate, (1–)3–11(–15) × 0.5–2(–6) cm (proximal with 3–5 lateral lobes, distal mostly entire), faces sparsely tomentose (abaxial) to sparsely hairy (adaxial).

broadly ovate, 3–5 × 4–5(–6) mm.

narrowly turbinate to campanulate, 2–3 × 2–4 mm.

pistillate 4–5(–13), (1–1.5 mm);

bisexual 25–35;

corollas yellow, 1.5–2 mm, glabrous.

pistillate 6–10;

bisexual 6–25;

corollas pale yellow, 1–1.5 mm, glabrous, sometimes glandular.

broadly ovate, sparsely hairy.

(green to gray) ovate, tomentose to pubescent.

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

(usually nodding) in (leafy) paniculiform arrays 10–30 × 3–9 cm (branches widely spreading, ascending, stout).

elliptic, 0.5–0.8 mm, glabrous.

ellipsoid, 0.5–1 mm, glabrous.

= 54.