Flora of North America species comparison

relatively numerous, brown or grayish green.

1–5, erect, whitish gray, densely tomentose.

± deciduous (by late summer, turning yellow);

blades lanceolate, oblanceolate, or cuneate, 2.5–5.5 × 0.8–1.2+ cm, entire or irregularly 3–6-lobed (lobes to 1/3 blade lengths, 1.5+ mm wide, rounded or acute; leaves of flowering stems usually smaller, entire), faces ± sericeous or tomentose.

mostly basal (cauline 1–4), greenish to whitish green;

blades (basal) 1–4.5 × 0.6–1.5 cm, 1–2-ternately to palmately lobed (flowering-stem blades 3-lobed), faces sparsely hairy.

ovoid or lanceoloid, (2.5–)4–6(–7) mm.

campanulate or hemispheric, 3.5–6 × 6–11 mm.

8–18(–27);

corollas 2.5–3.5, glabrous.

pistillate 9–10;

bisexual 20–30;

corollas yellow or reddish black, 2–3 mm, sometimes glandular.

lanceolate, sparsely to densely hairy.

lanceolate (margins brown), pilose.

(erect) in (leafy) paniculiform arrays 8–15(–25) × 0.5–3(–4) cm.

(2–20, peduncles 0 or to 25 mm) in subcapitate to capitate arrays 2–3 × 2–3 cm.

1–1.5 mm, glabrous or resinous.

oblong, 1.5–2.5 mm, (apices flattened) glabrous.

= 18, 36, 54, 72.