Flora of North America species comparison

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

pale gray, glabrous.

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, gray-green;

blades broadly cuneate, 1.5–4 × 0.5–2 cm, deeply 3-lobed (lobes 1–1.4 mm wide, acute; cauline leaves smaller, mostly 3-lobed).

broadly ovate, 3–5 × 4–5(–6) mm.

globose or turbinate, 2–4 × 1.5–3 mm.

pistillate 4–5(–13), (1–1.5 mm);

bisexual 25–35;

corollas yellow, 1.5–2 mm, glabrous.

3–11;

corollas 2–2.5 mm, glandular (style branches included).

broadly ovate, sparsely hairy.

broadly lanceolate (margins scarious, obscured by indument), canescent.

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

in paniculiform or spiciform arrays (5–)8–15(–35) × (0.5–)1–5 cm.

elliptic, 0.5–0.8 mm, glabrous.

(columnar, unequally ribbed) 1.8–2.3 mm, glabrous or resinous.