Flora of North America species comparison

erect, green or gray-green, 1.5–4(–10) dm, white- to yellow-canescent.

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

blades gray to green, ovate, unlobed or weakly 3–5-lobed, 1–5.5 cm, not rugose, base cuneate to cordate, margins entire or crenate to serrate, 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.

paniculate, crowded, flowers clustered with distinct internodes between clusters, tip not leafy;

involucellar bractlets usually green to tan, sometimes red-purple.

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

involucellar bractlets green.

sepals 6–9 mm, tip not forming distinct beak in bud;

petals red-orange, 8–14 mm;

anthers yellow.

sepals 5 mm;

petals rose-purple, 10–13 mm;

anthers yellow.

1 per mericarp, gray or black, ± pubescent.

1 per mericarp, gray to black, pubescent.

ellipsoid;

mericarps 12, 3.5–5.5 × 1.5–3 mm, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 60–70% of height, with or without 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.

= 10, 20.