Flora of North America species comparison

erect to decumbent, to 30 cm.

petiole 10–65 mm;

blade hastate to ovate, usually basally lobed, sometimes unlobed, to 18 × 10 cm, base cuneate to truncate, margins serrate to crenate, apex acute.

persisting;

petiole present or absent;

blade linear-lanceolate to linear, margins usually irregularly deeply lobed, lobes pointed.

petiole absent;

blade ovate-lanceolate to linear, to 15(–22) cm, margins few-lobed or entire.

green, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 2.9–8.2 × 1.1–1.9 mm, width 1/8–1/2 length, not concealing capsule, margins entire.

(fruiting) 1–3 × 2 mm (often appearing absent because thick and continuous with capsule).

petals orange or yellow, 5–15 × 3–7 mm, apex cuspidate, hairy abaxially at apex;

stamens 20–30, 5 mm, filaments heteromorphic, 5 outermost narrowly spatulate, inner filiform;

style 5 mm.

sepals 2–6 mm;

petals yellow to orange proximally, yellow distally, 3–8 mm, apex rounded or acute apex;

stamens 20–40, 2–7 mm, filaments monomorphic, filiform, unlobed;

styles 2–6 mm.

subcylindric to clavate, 9–30 × 3–3.5 mm, base tapering gradually, capsule and pedicel not well-differentiated.

clavate, 11–31 × 1.5–3 mm, axillary curved to 250° at maturity, usually inconspicuously longitudinally ribbed.

5–9 per capsule, pyriform to oblong, without transverse folds.

15–50, in 2+ rows distal to mid fruit, tan, usually not, occasionally sparsely, dark-mottled, usually irregularly polygonal, occasionally triangular prisms proximal to mid fruit, surface colliculate under 10x magnification; recurved flap over hilum absent;

seed coat cell outer periclinal wall domed, domes on seed edges less than 1/2 as tall as wide at maturity.

= 20.

= 36.