Flora of North America species comparison

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

1–3, erect, reddish brown, simple, strigillose to spreading-hairy, or 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.

basal (in rosettes, petioles to 12 cm) and cauline, greenish;

blades (basal) 2–3-pinnate, relatively deeply lobed (cauline sessile, 1–2-pinnately lobed to entire), faces sparsely hairy to pilose.

broadly ovate, 3–5 × 4–5(–6) mm.

globose, 3–5 × 4–8 mm.

pistillate 4–5(–13), (1–1.5 mm);

bisexual 25–35;

corollas yellow, 1.5–2 mm, glabrous.

pistillate 6–8;

bisexual 20–50;

corollas yellowish or yellow to reddish-tinged, 1–2 mm, hairy (hairs tangled).

broadly ovate, sparsely hairy.

(greenish or yellowish) elliptic (margins hyaline, brownish), glabrous or sparsely hairy.

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

(10–70, spreading to nodding, peduncles 0 or to 10 mm) in spiciform arrays 2–5 × 0.5–1 or 8–18 × 1–4 cm.

elliptic, 0.5–0.8 mm, glabrous.

oblong, 0.5–1 mm, glabrous.