Flora of North America species comparison

erect to ascending, leafy, 10–40 cm, stipitate-glandular.

petiole 3–15 cm;

blade shallowly lobed, 2–7 cm, ultimate margins serrate.

in basal rosette and cauline;

cauline leaves conspicuous, reduced and bractlike distally;

stipules present;

petiole glabrous;

blade reniform to orbiculate, 5–13-lobed, base cordate, ultimate margins irregularly serrate to crenate-dentate, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces glabrous;

venation palmate.

6–18-flowered, 16–40 cm, stipitate-glandular;

bracts subtending pedicels conspicuous, auriculate.

compound, dichasial cymes, terminal from terminal bud in basal rosette, 5–18-flowered, bracteate.

hypanthium campanulate-urceolate, 5–10 mm, glabrous;

sepals 6–10 mm, apex long-acuminate;

petals usually reddish purple to dark purple, narrowly lanceolate, unlobed, 7–12(–14) mm, apex long-tapered;

stamens included, 2 mm;

ovaries connate proximally 1/4 their lengths;

styles barely exserted, 2 mm;

stigmas distinct.

hypanthium free from ovary, greenish to purple;

sepals 5, greenish to purple, (narrowly triangular to triangular-ovate);

petals 5, greenish with purple margins or reddish purple to dark purple;

nectary tissue not seen;

stamens 5;

filaments filiform;

ovary nearly superior, 2-locular, ovaries connate 1/4–1/2 their lengths;

placentation axile;

styles 2;

stigmas 2.

brown, ovoid, 8–9 mm.

2-beaked.

100–125, 0.7–9 mm.

dark brown, prismatic (or angular) and fusiform, minutely tuberculate.

= 7.

= 14.