Flora of North America species comparison

erect and ascending, sparsely branched or simple, obtusely angled, 1.5–10(–15) dm, stout, scurfy when young.

numerous, sessile or proximal short petiolate;

blade greenish adaxially, paler abaxially, oblanceolate to spatulate-elliptic or oval, (3–)5–18 × 1–8 mm, margin entire, more scurfy abaxially.

sessile or short petiolate;

blade white abaxially, green adaxially, linear to lanceolate, elliptic, or oblong, 15–75 × (1–)3–25 mm, thin, base cuneate to long attenuate, margin coarsely sinuate-dentate or entire, apex rounded to acute, mucronate, densely scurfy and pale abaxially, green and glabrous adaxially.

in glomerules largely in distal bractless axils, thus short spicate;

calyx 5-cleft.

in glomerules, forming slender, usually dense, naked terminal narrowly paniculate spikes, panicles 6–30 cm;

glomerules beadlike, small, 2–3 mm thick;

calyx 5-cleft.

in proximal axils.

in few-flowered axillary clusters.

light brown, 0.8–1 mm.

pale brown, 1 mm.

bracteoles subsessile or stipe to 0.3 mm, suborbiculate to obovate, 1–1.5(–2) × 1.1–1.8 mm, united to middle, margin minutely 3–5-toothed at apex, otherwise entire, apex green, faces smooth or rarely tuberculate.

bracteoles short stipitate, cuneate-orbiculate or broadly cuneate, compressed, 2–2.5 mm, united basally, apex rounded, acutely 5-dentate, faces 3-veined, usually unappendaged, rarely obscurely tuberculate.