Dwarf, tufted, perennial, semi-succulent, grayish-green herb with leaves clustered on very short thick branches that remain near the ground; leaves linear to narrowly oblong, 1.5-5 cm long, 1.5-3 mm wide, smooth or with a few minute hairs; flowering ...
Perennial; stemless or stems numerous, short, 1-6 cm long; foliage grayish or green, strigulose with basifixed hairs; leaves 5-15 cm; leaflets 15-29, obovate to elliptic, 5-15 mm long, 1.5-3 times longer than wide; stipules free (not connate); inflor...
Perennial; stems short, prostrate, 1-6 cm long; herbage densely villous or villosulous with basifixed hairs; leaves 4-9 cm long; leaflets (7)9-15, often folded, 3-12 mm long, 2-3 times longer than wide; stipules free; inflorescences taller than or i...
Densely tufted and matted perennial from an intricately branching subsurface caudex; above ground stems absent or less than 2 cm long; leaves crowded, silvery-canescent with mostly appressed dolabriform hairs, pinnately 5-9 foliolate, to 3 cm long, t...
Plants shrubby, much-branched to about 0.8 m in height and about 2 meters across; main stems with lateral "joints" primarily in whorls at ends of each year's growth, some of these elongating into secondary main stems; stems 1.5-2 cm thick; lateral jo...
Herbaceous perennials to 1 m tall or more, stems erect. Leaves: Alternate, usually 3-5, orbiculate to broadly ovate or oblanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, 8-21 cm long and 1.5-12 cm wide, erect to spreading, proximal or more evenly spaced ...
Perennial herb 1.0-1.8 m tall; lower part of stem glabrous, usually green, but sometimes reddish; leaves all on stem and absent from the stem base at the time of anthesis, petioles 5-12 cm long, blades 8-16 cm long and 6-10 cm wide, palmately divided...
Biennial herb; stems one or a few, 2-6 dm tall, covered with appressed and somewhat spreading hairs; leaves hairy, those at base of plant oblanceolate, withering early, 2-7 cm long, stem leaves lanceolate or oblong 3-10 cm long; inflorescence a coile...