Flora of North America species comparison

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

gray (coarse, brittle), hairy (bark gray, exfoliating).

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.

deciduous, silver-gray (rigid);

blades broadly spatulate, 1.5–4 × 0.5–0.7 cm (bases narrow), 3-lobed (lobes 1/2+ blade lengths, ca. 1 mm wide), faces densely hairy.

broadly ovate, 3–5 × 4–5(–6) mm.

narrowly campanulate, 4–5 × 2.5–3.5 mm.

pistillate 4–5(–13), (1–1.5 mm);

bisexual 25–35;

corollas yellow, 1.5–2 mm, glabrous.

4–8;

corollas yellowish red to red, 2–2.8 mm (style branches oblong, truncate, exsert).

broadly ovate, sparsely hairy.

elliptic (acute to obtuse), densely canescent.

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

borne singly or (in glomerules) in (densely leafy) spiciform or paniculiform arrays 2–20 × 2 cm.

elliptic, 0.5–0.8 mm, glabrous.

(4–5-ribbed) 1–1.5 mm, glabrous.

= 18, 36.