The staminate (male) flower heads are in terminal and lateral flower spikes, while the pistillate (female) flower heads are clustered below them at the leaf axils. The flowers are wind-pollinated and are followed by burs with a few, short, hooked spines. The leaves have petioles with lobed wings and are grayish green in color, mostly alternate, covered in silky grayish hair, lanceolate to ovate in shape, and 2-4 pinnately lobed with narrowly lanceolate lobes. The upright stems grow from rhizome-like roots and are hairy or bristly and green to reddish brown in color.

Santa Catalina Mountains
Sabino Canyon.
Location: Bear Canyon Trail .25 mile from Visitor Center.
11/3/15

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