Flora of North America species comparison

erect to decumbent, base woody.

usually prostrate to ascending, sometimes trailing, sparsely stellate-hairy with simple hairs persistent on older stems.

stipules early-deciduous, lanceolate to ovate, 2–4 × 0.6–1.5 mm, minutely stellate-puberulent;

petiole as long as or longer than blade;

blade free filaments 1–2 mm;

anthers on distal 1/2;

style 6–10-branched (same number as locules), purplish;

stigmas 6–10 (same number as locules), purplish.

stipules persistent, narrowly triangular, 3–6 × 2.5 mm, papery;

petiole usually 2–5 times as long as blade, gradually reduced distally;

blade reniform to orbiculate-cordate, unlobed or very shallowly 5–7-lobed, 1.5–3.5(–6) × 1–4(–5) cm, base cordate, margins crenate-dentate, apex obtuse or rounded, surfaces glabrous or sparsely stellate-hairy.

axillary, 2–6-flowered fascicles, long-stalked.

1–5 cm, usually 10+ mm in fruit, several times longer than calyx, slender and flexible in fruit;

involucellar bractlets distinct, not adnate to calyx, linear to narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 3–5(–6) × 1 mm, shorter than calyx, margins entire, surfaces sparsely stellate-puberulent and short-ciliate.

calyx 4–7 mm, slightly accrescent, to 8 mm in fruit, lobes enclosing mericarps, not veined, triangular-ovate, stellate-hairy, ciliate;

petals pale lilac to whitish, drying pinkish or whitish, or faded, veins not darker, (6–)9–13 mm, length 2 times calyx, apex notched;

staminal column 4–4.5 mm, retrorsely stellate-puberulent;

style 12–15-branched;

stigmas 12–15 (same number as locules), purple.

dark brown, 4 mm, nearly as thick as long, notch slight.

1–1.5 mm.

12–16 mm diam.;

mericarps 6–10, 6–7 mm, apical face and margins sharp-edged, surfaces smooth to faintly ribbed, glabrous or puberulent on apical surface.

6 mm diam.;

mericarps 12–15, 1.5–2 mm, apical face and margins rounded-angled, not winged or toothed, sides thin and papery, smooth to slightly roughened or reticulate, surfaces puberulent apically.

= ca. 40.

= 42.