Flora of North America species comparison

densely ascending-spreading-hairy, sometimes sericeous.

stipules translucent, colorless, sometimes flushed pale wine red proximally, green distally, lobes green;

blade orbiculate, rather shallowly 7–9-lobed, margins flat or slightly undulate, basal sinuses closed, middle lobes rounded, as long as to slightly longer than their half-widths;

incisions usually absent or relatively short, sometimes relatively long;

teeth slightly connivent, slightly asymmetric, apex subacute or almost digitate, surfaces densely hairy.

alternate, rarely opposite, pinnately compound, sometimes simple or palmately compound;

stipules present, rarely absent.

primary branches sericeous;

peduncles sericeous.

sericeous.

epicalyx bractlet lengths 0.5 times as sepals (narrower);

hypanthium sericeous.

torus usually enlarged, sometimes small or absent;

carpels 1–260(–450), distinct, free, styles distinct, rarely connate (Roseae);

ovules 1(or 2), collateral (Rubeae) or superposed (Fallugia, Filipendula).

achenes or aggregated achenes sometimes with fleshy, urn-shaped hypanthium or enlarged torus, sometimes aggregated drupelets;

styles persistent or deciduous, not elongate (elongate but not plumose in Geum).

not or exserted to 1/20 from discs.

= 7(8).