Flora of North America species comparison

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

usually 10+ (rising beyond basal leaves, decumbent), whitish gray, (ca. 5 mm diam., densely leafy) densely hairy.

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).

persistent, gray-green;

blades broadly lanceolate, faces woolly-hairy;

proximalmost blades 3–8 × 2–6 cm, 2–3-pinnatifid, lobes linear (to 2 mm wide);

cauline somewhat reduced, 2–3 × 0.8–1.2 cm;

apices acute, faces hairy.

campanulate, 4–5 × 4–5 mm.

globose, 3–4.5 × 3–4.5 mm.

pistillate 3–10;

bisexual 8–26;

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

pistillate 5–20; functionally staminate 12–25;

corollas pale yellow (broadly tubular), ca. 2 mm, glabrous.

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

lanceolate, margins obscured by indument, hairs straight.

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

(sessile, clustered in glomerules) in (densely leafy) paniculiform to spiciform arrays 10–20(–30) × 1–4 cm.

ellipsoid, 0.5–0.8 mm, glabrous.

ellipsoid (faintly nerved), 1–1.5 mm, glabrous.

= 36.