Flora of North America species comparison

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

1–3, erect, white, tomentose (on distal branches, hairs appressed) 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.

basal and cauline, bicolor (white and green);

blades (basal) linear to broadly lanceolate, 3–7(–10) × 2–5(–6) cm, coarsely pinnately lobed (cauline becoming linear distally), faces tomentose (abaxial) or glabrous (adaxial).

broadly ovate, 3–5 × 4–5(–6) mm.

broadly campanulate, 4–5 × 3.5–4 mm.

pistillate 4–5(–13), (1–1.5 mm);

bisexual 25–35;

corollas yellow, 1.5–2 mm, glabrous.

pistillate 9;

bisexual 25–60;

corollas yellow, 1.5–3 mm, glabrous (style branches included, erect, linear, relatively short, short-ciliate).

broadly ovate, sparsely hairy.

(violet-brown) oval (outer) to elliptic or lanceolate, sparsely tomentose.

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

in compact to broadly branched, paniculiform arrays 1–20 × 2–6 cm.

elliptic, 0.5–0.8 mm, glabrous.

oblong-linear (angular), 1.2–1.5 mm, glabrous.

= 18, 36.