Flora of North America species comparison

3–20, erect, light brown, simple or branched, glabrous.

1–9, erect, gray-green, lanate.

cauline, dark green;

blades lanceolate, 1.5–5 × 1–2.5 cm, 2-pinnatifid (primary lobes 5–9, 0.4–1.5 cm; cauline smaller, pinnatifid to entire), faces tomentose (abaxial) or glabrous (adaxial).

mostly basal (in rosettes, cauline 2–5, scattered on flowering stems);

blades (basal) broadly oblanceolate, 0.5–0.8 × 0.5–0.7 cm, relatively deeply lobed (lobes 3–5, acute; cauline blades 0.5–1 cm, entire or pinnately lobed, lobes 3–5), faces densely tomentose to sericeous (hairs 1–2 mm).

campanulate to hemispheric, 2.5–3.5 × 2–4.5 mm.

turbinate, 3–4 × 3–5 mm.

pistillate 3–8;

bisexual, sometimes functionally staminate, (15–)20–35;

corollas bright yellow, 1.3–2.2 mm, glandular.

pistillate 4–5;

bisexual 3–4;

corollas yellow or tan, 1.5–2, glandular (style branches blunt, not fringed).

broadly ovate, glandular (at least at bases).

lanceolate or ovate, hairy.

(peduncles 0 or to 3 mm) in usually paniculiform, sometimes racemiform, arrays 5–20 × 1.5–4 cm.

in corymbiform arrays 0.5–2.5 × 0.5–2.5 cm (subtended by white-sericeous bracts).

(light brown) ellipsoid (± arcuate, ribs 4, prominent), ca. 1 mm, glandular.

(brown) linear-oblong, ca. 2 mm, (apices flat), glabrous.

= 18.

= 36, 54.