Flora of North America species comparison

blades ash green, ovate, ± rhombic, or suborbiculate, unlobed or 3- or 5-lobed, 2.5–4.5(–7) cm, thin to thick, surfaces: soft tomentose-white, adaxial pale ash green, white-velvety, basal sinus open, not overlapping.

blades broadly ovate or suborbiculate, unlobed or 3- or 5-lobed, 3–6(–8) cm, surfaces: moderately to copiously hairy, hairs grayish to tawny, 10–30-armed, basal sinus open, not overlapping.

open-paniculate or subracemose, flower clusters pedunculate, loose, 3(–6)-flowered, or solitary flowers;

involucellar bractlets awl-shaped to filiform, 2.5–7(–8) × 1 mm, 1/3–1/2(–2/3) calyx length.

usually short, interrupted, spicate to racemose, flower clusters sessile or short-pedunculate, glomerate to open, usually leafy;

involucellar bractlets filiform, 5–13 × 1 mm, mostly 2/3 to equaling calyx length.

calyx campanulate, not angled in bud, 5–9(–10) mm, lobes distinct in bud, narrowly triangular or deltate-lanceolate, 3–6(–7.5) × 1.5–3(–4) mm, length 2 times width, equaling to 3 times tube length, apex acute to short-acuminate, usually sublepidote to tomentose, hairs 10–30-armed, sometimes densely lanate;

petals pale pink, to 1 cm.

calyx angled or slightly winged in bud, 7–15 mm, lobes lanceolate, triangular, or ovate, 4.5–12 × 1.7–3(–4) mm, 2–3 times as long as wide, 2–3 times tube length, apex long-acuminate, densely stellate-hairy, hairs many-armed;

petals pink, to 2 cm.

2.5–3.8 mm.

2–3.2 mm.

= 34.

= 34.