Flora of North America species comparison

erect, terete when young, minutely tomentulose.

erect, ± stellate-pubescent, sometimes also with simple hairs 1–2 mm.

stipules subulate, 3 mm;

petiole ca. 1/2 times as long as blade;

blade concolorous, ovate, to 6 cm, longer than wide, base cordate, margins irregularly serrulate or crenate, apex acute or acuminate, surfaces densely tomentulose, obscured by pubescence.

stipules filiform, 6–9 mm;

petiole variable, usually subequal to blade;

blade nearly concolorous, broadly ovate or weakly 3-lobed, 4–8 cm, ± as long as wide, base cordate, margins dentate, apex acuminate, surfaces softly tomentose.

solitary flowers or in open panicles.

solitary flowers or terminal panicles.

calyx 3–5 mm, lobes not overlapping, spreading or somewhat reflexed in fruit, lanceolate-ovate;

corolla reflexed, yellow or pink with dark red center, petals 4–6 mm;

staminal column pubescent;

style 5-branched.

calyx 9–15 mm, lobes accrescent to 20 mm, basally overlapping, not reflexed in fruit, cordate, to 8 mm wide;

corolla yellow-orange throughout, petals 20–25 mm;

staminal column glabrous;

style 10-branched.

3 per mericarp, 2 mm, puberulent but appearing glabrous.

3 per mericarp, 3 mm, puberulent.

cask-shaped, not medially constricted, 7–9 × 6 mm;

mericarps: apex acute or apiculate, surface tomentulose.

broadly ovoid, 10–12 × 15–16 mm;

mericarps: apex acute or apiculate, densely hirsute.

= 14.