Flora of North America species comparison

glabrous or glabrate to densely hairy.

erect to ascending or decumbent.

1–8 cm;

leaflets 5–11, blade linear to ovate-elliptic, margins entire, irregularly toothed, or lobed.

urn-, cup-, or bell-shaped;

sepals accrescent or not, ovate, obovate, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, or lanceolate-ovate, 4–10 mm;

petals white, obovate, oblong, or obovate-cuneate, 4.5–10 mm, 1.6–1.8 times as long as wide, 0.5–1.1 times longer than sepals, apex retuse, obtuse, erose, truncate, or emarginate;

filaments 2–7 mm;

anthers (yellow) 0.4–1.5 mm;

style 1.5–4 mm.

5-merous;

sepals accrescent or not;

petals flexed inward (curving over fruit) as fruits mature, usually white or greenish white, sometimes yellowish proximally, veins sometimes purplish or dark yellow proximally, aging or drying white, lilac, or pink, usually longer than sepals (shorter to slightly longer in L. floccosa), usually with marginal hairs basally (except L. floccosa subspp.

dark brown or gray, 3–4.5 mm, tuberculate, tubercles straw-colored, platelike, conic, or awl-shaped.

and floccosa).