Flora of North America species comparison

simple or more commonly branched throughout, mainly 2–8(–10) dm, branches mostly obtusely angled;

herbage scurfy, becoming glabrate.

alternate or proximalmost opposite, short petiolate proximally, sessile and often cordate-clasping distally;

blade ovate to deltoid or oval, 4–30(–40) × 3–30 mm, base truncate or subhastate to rounded, margin entire or dentate, apex acute to obtuse.

tardily deciduous, alternate, sessile or nearly so;

blade spatulate to obovate or oblong, 3–15(–2.) × 2–4 mm, margin entire, apex typically acute.

in axillary glomerules.

in glomerules mainly in distal axils;

sepals 3–5.

appearing silvery, in clusters 1.5–3 mm wide, borne in paniculate, naked spikes 5–25 cm;

anthers yellow.

with fruiting bracteoles sessile, cuneate-orbicular to semicircular, 1.5–2.5 × 2–3 mm, united to near middle, margin deeply laciniate-dentate, tuberculate or sometimes smooth dorsally.

brown, 1–2 mm wide.

pale brown, 1–1.5 mm.

bracteoles scarcely compressed, 2–3 mm and as wide, apex truncate to broadly rounded, with 3 (or more) teeth across summit, surfaces smooth (or rarely tuberculate).

= 18.

= 18, 36.