Flora of North America species comparison

relatively slender, bark relatively thin, not corrugated;

rhizomes sometimes present (relatively short, deep-seated);

caudices seldom branched.

blades gray-green, oblong to lance-ovate, 3–10(–20) × 2–5 cm (rarely pinnately lobed), bases weakly cordate or truncate, margins crenate to serrate, apices rounded to acute, faces finely strigose to moderately scabrous (usually gland-dotted as well).

blades mostly lanceolate, lance-elliptic, lance-ovate, linear-oblong, oblong, or ovate, often 1–2-pinnatifid or -pinnately lobed, sometimes cordate, ultimate margins usually crenate, dentate, or serrate, seldom entire.

mostly proximal to mid stems.

mostly shorter than leaf blades.

hemispheric, 18–20 mm diam.

mostly yellow (becoming brick red and chartaceous in B. rosea).

(becoming brick-red, often drying to pink or rose, and chartaceous) (8–)15(–25) mm (hispidulous abaxially; cypselae strigose).

deltate or ovate to lanceolate, 8–12 mm, not surpassing inner.

usually borne singly.

= 38.