Flora of North America species comparison

20–90 cm.

petiole (1.3–)2.5–5.5 cm;

blade narrowly to broadly ovate or oblong-ovate, 5–16 × 2.5–8.5 cm, base cordate to rounded, margins denticulate, apex acute to slightly acuminate.

2.5–30 cm.

opening after elongation of axis, ± loosely spaced;

pedicels spreading at anthesis, 2.5–6.5 mm, with a minute, setaceous bracteole at base;

floral tube (0.4–)0.7–1.2 mm, funnelform, nectary projecting 0.2–0.7 mm beyond opening of floral tube;

sepals green or purple, broadly elliptic or oblong to oblong-ovate, 1.9–3.8 × 1.2–2.4 mm;

petals usually white, rarely pink, broadly deltate to broadly obovate, obcordate, or broadly obovate, (1.3–)1.6–2.9 × (1.5–)2.2–4 mm;

apical notch 1/3 to slightly more than 1/2 length of petal;

filaments 1.2–2.8 mm, pollen highly fertile (greater than 80%);

style 2.5–5.5 mm, stigma surrounded by anthers at anthesis.

pyriform to subglobose, rounded, usually obliquely, to pedicel, with corky, prominent ribs and deep grooves, 2.8–4.5 × 1.9–3.6 mm;

pedicel and mature fruit combined length 6.3–11.2 mm.

= 22.