Flora of North America species comparison

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

3–20+, erect, gray-green, usually simple, sometimes branched (bases woody), densely 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.

cauline, bicolor (white and green);

blades linear to lanceolate, 3–12 × 1 cm, margins usually entire, sometimes toothed or lobed, faces densely tomentose (abaxial) or glabrate (adaxial).

broadly ovate, 3–5 × 4–5(–6) mm.

campanulate, 4–5 × 4–5 mm.

pistillate 4–5(–13), (1–1.5 mm);

bisexual 25–35;

corollas yellow, 1.5–2 mm, glabrous.

pistillate 3–10;

bisexual 8–26;

corollas pale yellow, 1–2 mm, sparsely glandular.

broadly ovate, sparsely hairy.

ovate-lanceolate (margins hyaline), densely to sparsely tomentose.

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

(peduncles 0 or to 2 mm) in mostly racemiform arrays 8–13 × 1–2 cm.

elliptic, 0.5–0.8 mm, glabrous.

ellipsoid, 0.5–0.8 mm, glabrous.

= 36.