Flora of North America species comparison

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

5–8, silver-gray, 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.

persistent, silver-green, mostly basal;

proximalmost blades 3–4 × 1–1.5 cm, 1-pinnately lobed, lobes mostly 2–3 mm wide;

blades of flowering stems somewhat reduced, (1–)2–3(–5) × 0.15 cm, mostly entire;

apices rounded, faces densely hairy.

broadly ovate, 3–5 × 4–5(–6) mm.

broadly campanulate, 4–5(–7) × 2–3 mm.

pistillate 4–5(–13), (1–1.5 mm);

bisexual 25–35;

corollas yellow, 1.5–2 mm, glabrous.

pistillate 8–10 (2–2.8 mm); functionally staminate 22–32;

corollas pale yellow, 2.2–4.5 mm, glandular.

broadly ovate, sparsely hairy.

(ovate, margins broadly scarious) densely tomentose.

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

borne singly or (clustered in 2s and 3s on lateral branches; peduncles 0 or to 5 mm) in paniculiform arrays, (2–)4–9 × 1–1.5(–2) cm.

elliptic, 0.5–0.8 mm, glabrous.

(light brown) ellipsoid, flattened (faintly nerved), 1.5–2 mm, sparsely hairy, glabrous or resinous.