Flora of North America species comparison

erect, compact.

horizontal, short-creeping.

straw-colored or rarely brown, 1–2 times length of blade, glabrous on both surfaces, base scaly;

scales linear to lanceolate, 3–10 × 0.5–2 mm.

straw-colored, 1–3 times length of blade, hairs absent abaxially, pubescent adaxially, base scaly;

scales lanceolate to linear, 1–3 × 0.3–0.5 mm.

ovate to pentagonal, 1-pinnate or (in small plants) ternately lobed, (12–)20–40(–50) × 14–40(–45) cm.

deltate to pentagonal, 1-pinnate or ternately lobed, 5–10 × 3–7 cm.

1–2(–3) pairs, 12–22 cm, base cordate, margins shallowly lobed, with pair of basal lobes and without proliferous buds in axils.

absent or 1(–2) pair, or blade shallowly pinnatifid, 4–7 cm, base rounded, without proliferous buds in axils.

peltate.

peltate.

and costae glabrous abaxially.

and costae pubescent abaxially.

with included veinlets.

rarely with included veinlets.

= 160.

= 80.