Flora of North America species comparison

yellow to light brown, fibrous, from stout caudex.

erect, 30-80 cm, glabrous or glandular.

blade 1-4x-ternately compound;

leaflets reniform or cordate to obovate or orbiculate, apically 3-12-lobed, 10-45 mm wide, lobe margins often crenate, surfaces abaxially glabrous or glandular.

terminal and axillary, panicles to corymbs, many flowered.

panicles, racemes, or corymbs.

sepals greenish to purple, ovate or obovate to oval, 1.8-4 mm;

filaments yellow to greenish yellow, 3.5-5.5 mm;

anthers 2-4 mm, mucronate to acuminate;

stigma purple.

unisexual (rarely also bisexual in T. debile and T. fendleri);

sepals 4(-6);

filaments filiform (to slightly clavate in T. heliophilum).

(3-)7–13, not reflexed, sessile or nearly so;

stipe terete, 0-0.2 mm;

body ovoid to ellipsoid, not laterally compressed, 3.5-5 mm, glabrous, very strongly veined, veins not anastomosing-reticulate;

beak 1.5-3 mm.

sessile to nearly sessile.