Flora of North America species comparison

petiole 3–7 mm;

blade bright green, shiny, obovate or oblanceolate, 1–3 × 1–1.5 cm, base cuneate, margins entire, plane, surfaces smooth, puberulent, glabrescent.

petiole to 2 mm;

blade glaucous, dull, ovate to oblong-ovate, 3–4.5 × 2–3 cm, base distinctly lobed, auriculate-clasping, margins entire, plane, surfaces smooth, glabrous or midrib ± finely hairy.

racemes, simple or 1-branched;

immature inflorescence pendent, (branches congested, globose), axis 0.5–1 cm, 1+ mm diam., sparsely short-hairy;

bracts not appressed, (green), scalelike, linear or linear-lanceolate, mostly 2–3 mm (some near base leaflike, 5–10 mm), apex acuminate, mucronate, surfaces glabrous or sparsely hairy, rarely finely glandular-hairy.

panicles, 5–10-branched;

immature inflorescence pendent, branches spreading (open, loose, with overlapping bracts), axis 2–3 cm, 1+ mm diam., densely short-hairy with longer, gland-tipped hairs;

bracts not appressed, leaflike, ovate to wide-elliptic, 4–10 mm, apex acute, surfaces finely glandular-hairy.

3–5 mm, glabrous.

7–9 mm, finely glandular-hairy.

corolla white, urceolate;

ovary glabrous.

corolla white, conic to urceolate;

ovary glabrous.

(dark brown), globose, 6–8 mm diam., glabrous.

globose, 10–15 mm diam., glabrous.

distinct.

connate into single sphere.

= 26.