Flora of North America species comparison

5–8, silver-gray, densely tomentose.

(1–)2–5, gray-green, tomentose.

persistent, silver-green, mostly basal;

proximalmost blades 3–4 × 1–1.5 cm, 1-pinnately lobed, lobes mostly 2–3 mm wide;

blades of flowering stems somewhat reduced, (1–)2–3(–5) × 0.15 cm, mostly entire;

apices rounded, faces densely hairy.

persistent, basal rosettes persistent, gray-green to white;

blades ovate, 2–4 × 0.5–1 cm, 2–3-pinnately or -ternately lobed, lobes linear to narrowly oblong, apices acute, faces moderately to densely sericeous.

broadly campanulate, 4–5(–7) × 2–3 mm.

hemispheric, 3–4 × 3.5–4 mm.

pistillate 8–10 (2–2.8 mm); functionally staminate 22–32;

corollas pale yellow, 2.2–4.5 mm, glandular.

pistillate 8–10; functionally staminate 15–30;

corollas (or lobes) yellow-orange or deep red, 2.2–3.5.

(ovate, margins broadly scarious) densely tomentose.

(obscurely scarious) densely tomentose-villous.

borne singly or (clustered in 2s and 3s on lateral branches; peduncles 0 or to 5 mm) in paniculiform arrays, (2–)4–9 × 1–1.5(–2) cm.

(proximal sessile, distal pedunculate) in (leafy) spiciform arrays 4–9(–12) × (0.5–)1–5 cm.

(light brown) ellipsoid, flattened (faintly nerved), 1.5–2 mm, sparsely hairy, glabrous or resinous.

oblong-lanceoloid, somewhat compressed, 0.4–1 mm, faintly nerved, glabrous.