Flora of North America species comparison

erect to ascending or sprawling, sparsely pubescent.

with branches ascending, densely villous-sericeous.

opposite;

blade ovate, 3–6 × 2–4 cm, apex rounded to acute, pubescent.

alternate;

blade ovate, ovate-lanceolate, or ovate oblong, 7–25 × 3–9 cm, densely villous abaxially, glabrate.

panicles 1.5–4 dm;

bracts and bracteoles 1/2–1/3 as long as tepals.

panicles 2–15 cm;

bracts and bractlets of staminate flowers less than 1/2 as long as tepals;

bracts and bracteoles of pistillate flowers nearly equaling tepals.

pedicellate;

tepals whitish to stramineous, ovate, 1–1.3 mm, apex acute, densely lanate.

tepals white, elliptic to oblong, staminate flowers 2–2.5 mm, pistillate flowers 1.5–1.9 mm, apex obtuse, densely villous.

0.6 mm.

1 mm.

included in tepals, greenish, ovoid, 0.8 mm, apex acute.

included in tepals, ovoid, apex rounded.