Flora of North America species comparison

pale gray, glabrous.

3–20+, erect, gray-green, usually simple, sometimes branched (bases woody), densely tomentose.

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).

cauline, bicolor (white and green);

blades linear to lanceolate, 3–12 × 1 cm, margins usually entire, sometimes toothed or lobed, faces densely tomentose (abaxial) or glabrate (adaxial).

globose or turbinate, 2–4 × 1.5–3 mm.

campanulate, 4–5 × 4–5 mm.

3–11;

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

pistillate 3–10;

bisexual 8–26;

corollas pale yellow, 1–2 mm, sparsely glandular.

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

ovate-lanceolate (margins hyaline), densely to sparsely tomentose.

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

(peduncles 0 or to 2 mm) in mostly racemiform arrays 8–13 × 1–2 cm.

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

ellipsoid, 0.5–0.8 mm, glabrous.

= 36.