Flora of North America species comparison

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

relatively numerous, erect, gray, simple (annual flowering branches leafy), loosely sericeous.

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.

(semideciduous) cauline (sessile), gray-green;

blades oblanceolate, 0.5–3 × 0.2–1.5 cm (bases attenuate), 3-lobed or irregularly palmatifid (lobes narrow, apices acute), sparsely sericeous-lanate.

broadly ovate, 3–5 × 4–5(–6) mm.

globose, 3.5–5 × 4–5 mm.

pistillate 4–5(–13), (1–1.5 mm);

bisexual 25–35;

corollas yellow, 1.5–2 mm, glabrous.

pistillate 8;

bisexual 20–35;

corollas yellow (tubular with broad throats), ca. 2 mm, glandular.

broadly ovate, sparsely hairy.

ovate, sparsely sericeous.

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

(mostly erect, peduncles 0 or to 25 mm) in racemiform arrays (4–)8–12(–14) × (0.5–)1–2(–4) cm.

elliptic, 0.5–0.8 mm, glabrous.

(light brown) oblanceoloid (4–5-angled, broadest at truncate apices), 0.3–0.5 mm, glandular-pubescent (pappi coroniform, 0.3–0.6 mm, irregularly lacerate).