Flora of North America species comparison

brown, spreading pubescent.

blade entire or 3-5-lobed, 6-20 × 5-15 cm, base shallowly cordate, often oblique, truncate, or broadly rounded, margins serrate, apex acuminate;

surfaces abaxially densely gray-pubescent, adaxially scabrous.

blade ovate, lobed or entire, margins dentate;

venation appearing palmate or weakly 3-veined from base.

staminate and pistillate on different plants.

sepals pubescent.

sepals 4, connate at base;

stamens 4, inflexed.

style elongate-filiform.

sepals 4, connate, forming tube;

ovary superior, stipitate, 1-locular;

style unbranched.

globose; each drupelet partly protruding from its enlarged calyx.

bud absent, axillary buds dark brown, short-pubescent;

leaf scars nearly circular, somewhat elevated.

buds surrounded by bud scales.

inflorescences 6-8 cm;

peduncle 2-4 cm.

inflorescences pedunculate, cylindric spikes; pistillate inflorescences short-pedunculate, globose capitula.

inflorescences ca. 2 cm diam., villous.

globose, 2-3 cm diam.;

drupes red or orange, oblanceolate, each exserted from its calyx.

= 13.