Flora of North America species comparison

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

appressed- to ascending-hairy.

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.

stipules translucent, quickly turning brownish;

blade ± orbiculate, palmately compound, leaflets 5–7, narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, apices with 7–11 teeth, margins flat, abaxial surface sericeous, adaxial shiny, glabrous.

primary branches glabrous.

primary branches densely appressed-hairy.

glabrous.

usually shorter than hypanthia, densely appressed-hairy.

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

hypanthium glabrous.

epicalyx bractlet lengths 0.5 or less times sepals;

hypanthium densely pubescent;

sepals erect after flowering.

not exserted.

not exserted.