Flora of North America species comparison

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

relatively numerous, erect, brown, mostly simple (brittle, bases woody) canescent or glabrate.

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, grayish green;

sessile (proximalmost short-petiolate);

blades triangular to ovate, 1–5 × 1–3 cm, 2–3-pinnatifid (lobes 0.5–1 mm wide, acute), faces pubescent (abaxial) or hairy to glabrate (adaxial).

broadly ovate, 3–5 × 4–5(–6) mm.

spheric, 1.5–2(–3) mm.

pistillate 4–5(–13), (1–1.5 mm);

bisexual 25–35;

corollas yellow, 1.5–2 mm, glabrous.

pistillate 10–12;

bisexual 40–45;

corollas pale yellow, 0.2–0.3 mm, sometimes gland-dotted (stigma lobes relatively short, not emerging from tubes, short-ciliate).

broadly ovate, sparsely hairy.

(subequal) linear, hairy.

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

(nodding) in paniculiform arrays 10–22 × 2–4 cm.

elliptic, 0.5–0.8 mm, glabrous.

ellipsoid (angled), 0.1–0.2 mm, glabrous.

= 18.