Flora of North America species comparison

pale gray, glabrous.

light brown to gray-green (woody, somewhat pliable, leafy), persistently canescent to glabrescent.

deciduous, gray-green;

blades broadly cuneate, 1.5–4 × 0.5–2 cm, deeply 3-lobed (lobes 1–1.4 mm wide, acute; cauline leaves smaller, mostly 3-lobed).

deciduous, whitish gray or green to dark gray-green;

blades narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, 1.5–8 × 0.2–1 cm, usually entire, sometimes irregularly lobed, sparsely to densely hairy.

globose or turbinate, 2–4 × 1.5–3 mm.

(subtended by green, leaflike bracts) narrowly to broadly campanulate, 3–4 × 2–5 mm.

3–11;

corollas 2–2.5 mm, glandular (style branches included).

4–20;

corollas 2–3 mm, resinous (style branches ellipsoid, to 2.3 mm, exsert, gland-dotted).

broadly lanceolate (margins scarious, obscured by indument), canescent.

ovate or lanceolate (scarious margins nearly invisible), densely canescent.

in paniculiform or spiciform arrays (5–)8–15(–35) × (0.5–)1–5 cm.

in (congested, leafy) paniculiform arrays 10–20 × 0.2–7 cm.

(columnar, unequally ribbed) 1.8–2.3 mm, glabrous or resinous.

(light brown) 1–2.3 mm, resinous.