Flora of North America species comparison

erect to decumbent, base woody.

procumbent or trailing to ascending, villous-hirsute.

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, ovate to broadly ovate, 4–6 × 3–5 mm;

petiole 2–5 times as long as blade;

blade semicircular or reniform, 2–4 × 2–4 cm, sometimes to 12 cm in young plants, base cordate to nearly truncate, distalmost leaves sometimes wide-cuneate, margins crenate or dentate, undulate, or with 5–7 shallow, lobes, apex obtuse, rounded, or acute, surfaces sparsely hairy, hairs simple.

stellate;

petals pink to lavender, drying bluish, usually with darker veins, 5–15 mm, subequal to or length slightly less than 2 times calyx, glabrous or nearly so;

staminal column 2–2.5(–3) mm, densely, retrorsely puberulent, hairs simple;

style 7–10-branched;

stigmas 7–10.

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

dark brown, 2–2.5 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.

6–7 mm diam.;

mericarps 7–10, 3 mm, thick, as wide as long, margins sharp-angled but not winged, conspicuously, deeply reticulate-pitted apically, surfaces densely hirsute or glabrous.

= ca. 40.

= 42.