Flora of North America species comparison

erect, green to gray-green, 2.5–9 dm, gray-green canescent.

erect, white, 30 dm, densely soft stellate-pubescent.

blades green to gray-green, triangular, unlobed or weakly 5-lobed, to 4.5 cm, not rugose, base cuneate to truncate, margins coarsely toothed, surfaces stellate-pubescent.

blades white or yellow, lanceolate or ovate to triangular or cordate, 3-lobed, central lobe larger than laterals, 1–5 cm, rugose, coriaceous, base cuneate, margins irregularly dentate, wavy, surfaces stellate-pubescent.

narrowly paniculate, crowded, few–many-flowered, flowers in clusters, tip not leafy;

involucellar bractlets green to tan.

paniculate, narrow, crowded, multiflowered, interrupted, tip leafy;

involucellar bractlets green.

sepals 4–9 mm, tips forming weak beak in bud;

petals red-orange, 11–14 mm;

anthers yellow.

sepals 5 mm;

petals rose-purple, 10–13 mm;

anthers yellow.

1 per mericarp, brown, slightly hairy.

1 per mericarp, gray to black, pubescent.

spheric;

mericarps 12, 3.5–4 × 2.5–3 mm, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 55% of height, tip acute, with reflexed apical cusp, indehiscent part not wider than dehiscent part.

helmet-shaped;

mericarps usually 10, usually 3 × 2 mm, chartaceous, moderately reticulate dehiscent part 60% of height, tip acute, indehiscent part not wider than dehiscent part.