Flora of North America species comparison

suberect to decumbent, with patent or retrorse, simple hairs, hairs 1 mm.

erect, minutely, roughly hairy, hairs to 0.5 mm.

petiole 1/2 times to equaling blade, hispid;

blade concolorous, often with purple blotch along midvein, ovate, triangular, hastate, or sometimes palmately lobed, mostly 3–9 cm, membranous, base cordate, wide-rounded, or truncate, margins crenate to subentire, apex acute, surfaces sparsely hairy, hairs mostly simple, appressed, 1 mm.

petiole shorter than blade, minutely, roughly hairy, hairs to 0.5 mm;

blade somewhat discolorous, ovate-triangular to lanceolate, 3–7(–12) cm, membranous, base truncate to cuneate, margins obscurely crenate to subentire, apex acute, surfaces hairy, hairs minute, stellate abaxially, simple, appressed adaxially.

solitary flowers.

solitary flowers or panicles.

4–12 cm, often exceeding leaf.

to 4(–6) cm.

calyx 5–10 mm, accrescent to 12–20 mm, lobes without dark midrib, apex acute, hispid;

petals purplish or lavender, rarely white, drying purplish, sometimes bluish, 8–26(–30) mm;

staminal column hairy;

style 10–19-branched;

stigmas glabrous.

calyx 6(–9) mm, accrescent to 9 mm, lobes without dark midrib, apex acute, minutely stellate-hairy;

petals bright yellow, 9–16 mm;

staminal column stellate-hairy;

style 10–12-branched;

stigmas glabrous.

with or without enclosing endocarp.

enclosed in endocarp.

8–11 mm diam. (excluding spines), densely hispid;

mericarps 10–19, with dorsal spur 1.5–4 mm.

9 mm diam., densely stellate-hairy, hairs 0.5–1 mm;

mericarps 10–12, with dorsal spur 1–1.5 mm.

= 30, 60, 90.