Flora of North America species comparison

sparsely appressed-hairy throughout or glabrous in distal 1/2.

stipules translucent, colorless, usually flushed pale wine red proximally, apex pale green, sometimes with pale wine red margins and veins;

blade reniform-orbiculate, 7–9-lobed, margins flat, basal sinuses narrow or closed, middle lobes as long as and rounded to longer than their half-widths;

incisions long or short, 2–5 mm;

teeth usually connivent, symmetric to slightly asymmetric, apex acute, abaxial surface with nerves hairy throughout or in distal 1/2 only, internerve regions usually glabrous (except sometimes on 2 basal lobes), adaxial glabrous or slightly hairy at margin.

primary branches glabrous.

glabrous.

epicalyx bractlet lengths 0.5 times to almost equal to sepals (always narrower);

hypanthium glabrous.

not exserted.