Flora of North America species comparison

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

relatively numerous, brown or grayish green.

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 (by late summer, turning yellow);

blades lanceolate, oblanceolate, or cuneate, 2.5–5.5 × 0.8–1.2+ cm, entire or irregularly 3–6-lobed (lobes to 1/3 blade lengths, 1.5+ mm wide, rounded or acute; leaves of flowering stems usually smaller, entire), faces ± sericeous or tomentose.

broadly ovate, 3–5 × 4–5(–6) mm.

ovoid or lanceoloid, (2.5–)4–6(–7) mm.

pistillate 4–5(–13), (1–1.5 mm);

bisexual 25–35;

corollas yellow, 1.5–2 mm, glabrous.

8–18(–27);

corollas 2.5–3.5, glabrous.

broadly ovate, sparsely hairy.

lanceolate, sparsely to densely hairy.

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

(erect) in (leafy) paniculiform arrays 8–15(–25) × 0.5–3(–4) cm.

elliptic, 0.5–0.8 mm, glabrous.

1–1.5 mm, glabrous or resinous.

= 18, 36, 54, 72.