Flora of North America species comparison

3–20+, erect, gray-green, usually simple, sometimes branched (bases woody), densely tomentose.

light brown to gray-green (woody, somewhat pliable, leafy), persistently canescent to glabrescent.

cauline, bicolor (white and green);

blades linear to lanceolate, 3–12 × 1 cm, margins usually entire, sometimes toothed or lobed, faces densely tomentose (abaxial) or glabrate (adaxial).

deciduous, whitish gray or green to dark gray-green;

blades narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, 1.5–8 × 0.2–1 cm, usually entire, sometimes irregularly lobed, sparsely to densely hairy.

campanulate, 4–5 × 4–5 mm.

(subtended by green, leaflike bracts) narrowly to broadly campanulate, 3–4 × 2–5 mm.

pistillate 3–10;

bisexual 8–26;

corollas pale yellow, 1–2 mm, sparsely glandular.

4–20;

corollas 2–3 mm, resinous (style branches ellipsoid, to 2.3 mm, exsert, gland-dotted).

ovate-lanceolate (margins hyaline), densely to sparsely tomentose.

ovate or lanceolate (scarious margins nearly invisible), densely canescent.

(peduncles 0 or to 2 mm) in mostly racemiform arrays 8–13 × 1–2 cm.

in (congested, leafy) paniculiform arrays 10–20 × 0.2–7 cm.

ellipsoid, 0.5–0.8 mm, glabrous.

(light brown) 1–2.3 mm, resinous.

= 36.