Flora of North America species comparison

terete, stellate-hairy.

erect [or procumbent].

stipules subulate to falcate, 5–15(–20) mm;

petiole terete, 1/2 to as long as blade;

blade shallowly 3–5-lobed, lobes broadly ovate, 4–10 cm, membranous, base cordate, apex acute to acuminate, surfaces glabrous or hairy.

stipules persistent, subulate or linear to falcate;

blade ovate, unlobed, shallowly lobed, or deeply parted, base subcordate or cordate, margins entire, surfaces glabrous or stellate-hairy, often with abaxial foliar nectaries.

flowers usually sympodial.

axillary, solitary flowers or flowers sympodially arranged;

involucellar bractlets deciduous or persistent, 3, distinct.

2–4 cm, with 3-merous involucellar nectaries;

involucellar bractlets persistent, foliaceous (enclosing bud), broadly cordate-ovate, 2–4.5 cm, margins laciniate.

calyx 5–6 mm (excluding teeth, if present), apex truncate or 5-toothed;

petals cream, with or without red spot, 2–5 cm;

staminal column 15 mm, glabrous;

style somewhat exceeding androecium;

stigmas 3–5.

calyx not accrescent, not inflated, lobes sometimes unribbed, ovate or triangular, glabrous or hairy;

corolla cream or yellow [rose], sometimes fading rose, with or without dark spot at center;

staminal column included;

ovary 3–5-carpellate;

style unbranched;

stigmas decurrent-clavate.

capsules, erect, not inflated, ovoid or subglobose to oblong, leathery, usually glabrous.

3–5-locular, broadly ovoid or subglobose, 2–4 cm, smooth, glabrous.

8–10 mm, comose, hairs (cotton) usually white.

[2–]24, densely comose to glabrate or glabrous.

= 13.

= 52.