Flora of North America species comparison

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

gray-green, 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.

persistent, gray-green;

blades (basal) oblanceolate, 2–7 × 0.1 cm, 2-pinnately lobed (lobes linear or oblanceolate; cauline blades smaller, 1–2-pinnate or entire), faces silky-canescent.

broadly ovate, 3–5 × 4–5(–6) mm.

broadly globose or subglobose, 4 × 4–7 mm.

pistillate 4–5(–13), (1–1.5 mm);

bisexual 25–35;

corollas yellow, 1.5–2 mm, glabrous.

pistillate 6–13;

bisexual 15–30;

corollas 1.5–2.5 mm, hairy (at least on lobes).

broadly ovate, sparsely hairy.

green (margins black or dark brown), densely villous.

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

(5–22) in spiciform arrays 5–9 × 1–1.5 cm.

elliptic, 0.5–0.8 mm, glabrous.

0.8–1 mm, glabrous.

= 18.