Flora of North America species comparison

simple, 15–30 cm.

erect, leafy, 8–85 cm, stipitate-glandular.

in basal rosette and cauline, basal unlobed, irregularly 3–5-lobed, or digitately lobed, sometimes almost pinnatifid, cauline (2), deeply 3-lobed, appearing pinnatifid, much reduced, more highly dissected than basal;

stipules broad, decurrent on petiole base, (margins fimbriate);

petiole to 8 cm;

blade light green, orbiculate, (base hastate), surfaces sparsely hairy.

in basal rosette and cauline;

cauline leaves (1–)2(–10), usually alternate (opposite in L. cymbalaria), unlobed, lobed, or palmately compound, sometimes with bulbils in axils;

stipules present;

petiole stipitate-glandular;

blade rhombic or orbiculate to reniform, lobed, base cordate, hastate, rounded, ligulate, or cuneate, ultimate margins entire or toothed, apex obtuse or acute, surfaces often stipitate-glandular;

venation palmate.

1–5, (compact), erect, 3–12-flowered racemes, simple, (10–12 cm).

compact or lax racemes, arising from axillary buds in basal rosette, 2–12(–25)-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary, (flowers sometimes replaced by bulbils), bracteate.

shorter than hypanthium.

persistent, not fragrant, slightly pendulous;

hypanthium campanulate or hemispheric, becoming elongate-campanulate in fruit, open at throat;

sepals erect in bud, widely spreading after anthesis, triangular;

petals (exserted), widely spreading, pink, sometimes white, ovate, narrowly clawed, palmately 5–7-lobed, (sinuses extending 1/3–1/2 distance to base), 3–7 mm, ultimate margins entire;

ovary to 1/2 inferior;

styles exserted slightly in fruit;

stigma papillae in narrow subapical band.

hypanthium partially adnate to proximal 1/2 to entire length of ovary, free from ovary 1–2 mm, green;

sepals 5, green tinged with red;

petals 5, white or pink; nectariferous tissue inconspicuous;

stamens 10, (inserted on hypanthium, inner whorl attached proximal to point of petal insertion);

filaments filiform; (anthers cordate);

pistil 3-carpellate;

ovary superior to 1/2 or almost completely inferior, 1-locular, carpels fully connate at ovaries;

placentation parietal;

styles 3;

stigmas 3.

3-beaked.

0.6–0.7 mm, smooth or wrinkled.

(50–200), usually dark brown, ovoid, smooth, wrinkled, or tuberculate.

= 7.

= 14, 35.