Flora of North America species comparison

opposite or subopposite proximally, or some alternate distally;

petiole 2–6 mm;

blade yellow green, ovate to obovate, elliptic, or orbiculate, 8–55 × 6–32 mm, base obtuse to cuneate, margin entire or repand-dentate, apex rounded to acute, sparingly scurfy.

short petiolate to sessile;

blade ovate-deltate to elliptic or spatulate, (5–)10–27 mm, entire or subhastate.

brown to tan or yellow, in clusters 2–4 mm wide, on panicles 2–10(–15) cm.

borne in small axillary glomerules.

in spikes or spicate panicles 4–30 cm.

borne solitary or few in bract axils on short, spinose, lateral branchlets of a paniculate inflorescence.

brown, 2 mm wide.

reddish brown, 2–2.8 mm.

bracteoles sessile or on stipes to 7 mm, body 4-winged, 6–10 mm and wide, toothed apically, surface smooth, reticulate, or with flattened processes, wings 3–4 mm wide.

bracteoles sessile or nearly so, body globose, connate, constricted below oblong to orbicular wings, 7–15 ×3.5–10 mm, entire or obscurely dentate, faces smooth to sparingly cristate.

= 18.