Flora of North America species comparison

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

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

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.

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).

broadly ovate, 3–5 × 4–5(–6) mm.

globose, 2–3 × 2–3.5(–6) mm.

pistillate 4–5(–13), (1–1.5 mm);

bisexual 25–35;

corollas yellow, 1.5–2 mm, glabrous.

pistillate 6–25; functionally staminate 8–20;

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

broadly ovate, sparsely hairy.

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

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

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

elliptic, 0.5–0.8 mm, glabrous.

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

= 18.