Flora of North America species comparison

persistent, often 30–40 mm apart;

petiole 2–4 mm, tomentose-pilose;

blade ovate or elliptic, 22–58 × 12–29 mm, coriaceous, base cuneate or obtuse, margins flat, veins 4 or 5, sunken, apex acute or acuminate, mucronate, abaxial surfaces silvery-tomentose, adaxial grayish green, slightly shiny, not glaucous, flat, rarely slightly bulging between lateral veins, drying slightly rugose, pilose.

deciduous (sometimes tardily so on vigorous basal sprouts);

petiole often red, 3–4 mm, strigose-pilose;

blade elliptic or narrowly elliptic to sometimes elliptic-ovate or narrowly ovate, 20–48(–61) x (10–)15–29 mm, chartaceous, base cuneate or obtuse, margins flat, veins 2–4, sunken, apex minutely truncate, rarely acute, mucronate, abaxial surfaces densely grayish tomentose, adaxial dark green, shiny, not glaucous, flat between lateral veins, slightly rugose, initially pilose;

fall leaves orange.

on fertile shoots 30–60 mm with 4 leaves, 5–15(–25)-flowered, compact.

on fertile shoots 30–50 mm with 4–6 leaves, 3–9(–15)-flowered, compact.

1–4 mm, densely long-silky hairy.

1–3 mm, strigose-pilose.

(5–)7–8(–10) mm, opening small;

hypanthium cupulate, densely long-silky hairy;

sepals: margins villous, borders purple, glabrous, apex cuspidate or acuminate, surfaces silky hairy;

petals erect-incurved, pink or red, base dark pink to dark red, margins off-white;

stamens 16–21, filaments pink, distally white, anthers pink or purplish pink;

styles 2 or 3(or 4).

6.5–9 mm, open;

hypanthium funnelform, silky tomentose;

sepals: margins tomentose, apex cuspidate or acuminate, surfaces tomentose;

petals erect-incurved, pink or reddish, base dark red, margins yellowish or off-white;

stamens 17–20, filaments dark red, at least proximally, anthers white;

styles (2 or)3 or 4[or 5].

orange-red, obovoid base rounded or obconic base cuneate, straight-sided, 8–12 × 6–9 mm, apex flat, shiny, not glaucous, sparsely pilose;

sepals flat, often asymmetric with 2 sepals longer than others, tomentose;

navel slightly open;

style remnants 3/4 from base.

orange-red, obovoid to broadly obovoid or subglobose, rarely globose, (7–)8.2–10.1 × 6.6–7.6 mm, slightly shiny, not glaucous, pilose;

sepals flat, tomentose;

navel closed;

style remnants 2/3 from base.

2 or 3(or 4).

(2 or)3 or 4[or 5].

= 68 (Germany).

= 68 (England).