Flora of North America species comparison

relatively numerous, erect, brown, mostly simple (brittle, bases woody) canescent or glabrate.

gray-green, glabrate.

cauline, grayish green;

sessile (proximalmost short-petiolate);

blades triangular to ovate, 1–5 × 1–3 cm, 2–3-pinnatifid (lobes 0.5–1 mm wide, acute), faces pubescent (abaxial) or hairy to glabrate (adaxial).

persistent, gray-green;

blades (basal) oblanceolate, 2–7 × 0.1 cm, 2-pinnately lobed (lobes linear or oblanceolate; cauline blades smaller, 1–2-pinnate or entire), faces silky-canescent.

spheric, 1.5–2(–3) mm.

broadly globose or subglobose, 4 × 4–7 mm.

pistillate 10–12;

bisexual 40–45;

corollas pale yellow, 0.2–0.3 mm, sometimes gland-dotted (stigma lobes relatively short, not emerging from tubes, short-ciliate).

pistillate 6–13;

bisexual 15–30;

corollas 1.5–2.5 mm, hairy (at least on lobes).

(subequal) linear, hairy.

green (margins black or dark brown), densely villous.

(nodding) in paniculiform arrays 10–22 × 2–4 cm.

(5–22) in spiciform arrays 5–9 × 1–1.5 cm.

ellipsoid (angled), 0.1–0.2 mm, glabrous.

0.8–1 mm, glabrous.

= 18.

= 18.