UW Burke Herbarium species comparison

Leaves all basal, the leaves wedge-shaped to fan-shaped, 10-25 mm. long and nearly as broad, coarsely dentate with 7-9 teeth, with slender petioles of similar length, glabrous or with a few soft, brown hairs.

Leaves basal, the blades ovate, up to 6 cm. long and 3 cm. wide, with 15-30 rounded teeth, reddish-woolly on the lower surface;

petioles slender, shorter or somewhat longer than the blades.

Inflorescence, calyx and fruits often bright red; inflorescence a cyme with up to 15 flowers, the peduncles slender, often with linear, entire bracts;

calyx lobed almost to the base, the 5 lobes oblong-lanceolate, 2-3 mm. long, sharply reflexed;

petals 5, white, aging to pink, 2.5-4 mm. long, the blade oblong-oval, rounded to a short, broad claw;

stamens 10, equaling the petals, the filaments white, club-shaped;

carpels often 3-5, fused only 0.5-1 mm., the ovary mostly superior, the carpels tapered to styles less than 1 mm. long.

Inflorescence an open, flat-topped panicle, the bracts reddish-woolly;

calyx reddish-woolly, divided about half its length, the 5 ovate lobes 1-2.5 mm. long;

petals 5, white, 2-3.5 mm. long, broadly ovate, narrowed abruptly to the base;

stamens 10, the filaments awl-shaped, reddish;

ovary about 1/3 inferior.

Follicle 7-12 mm. long exclusive of the slender, divergent, stylar beaks.

Follicles reddish