Flora of North America species comparison

1–3, erect or ascending, white, simple (stout), densely tomentose to floccose.

(1–)2–5, gray-green, tomentose.

basal and cauline (petiolate), silver-gray;

blades oblanceolate, (proximalmost) 3–10 × 1–5 cm, pinnatifid (lobes relatively broad, rounded; distal leaves, on flowering stems, smaller), faces densely tomentose.

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, 5–8 × 6–7 mm.

hemispheric, 3–4 × 3.5–4 mm.

pistillate 12–16;

bisexual 25–30;

corollas yellow (narrow or tubular), 3.2–4 mm (unusually large), glabrous or sparsely hairy (style branches prominent, erect, blunt).

pistillate 8–10; functionally staminate 15–30;

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

broadly lanceolate, tomentose.

(obscurely scarious) densely tomentose-villous.

(erect or spreading, peduncles 0 or to 3 mm) in dense, paniculiform, racemiform, or spiciform arrays 8–20 × 2–4 cm.

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

(dark brown) narrowly oblong-linear (slightly flattened, smooth), 3–4 mm, glabrous.

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

= 18.