Flora of North America species comparison

simple, 20–50 cm.

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

in basal rosette and cauline, basal digitately 3-lobed, segments again lobed, cauline (2–3), 3-foliolate or deeply lobed, reduced, similar to basal (except lobes longer);

stipules large, decurrent on petiole base;

petiole to 11 cm;

blade dark green or reddish green, orbiculate, (base hastate), surfaces densely 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.

usually 1, (lax), nodding, 4–8-flowered racemes, simple.

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

not exceeding length of hypanthium.

deciduous if unfertilized, fragrant, horizontal;

hypanthium elongate-obconic, elongating in fruit, abruptly expanding, open at throat, (9–11 mm, length 3–4 times diam.);

sepals erect, triangular;

petals widely spreading, pink, obovate-rhombic, narrowly clawed, 3-lobed, 4–14 mm, ultimate margins entire;

ovary 1/2+ to ± entirely inferior;

styles included 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.

= 28.