Flora of North America species comparison

erect, becoming decumbent, to 60 cm.

petiole to 25 mm;

blade usually hastate or ovate, distal sometimes elliptic, basally lobed or unlobed, to 8.4 × 5.5 cm, base usually truncate, sometimes obtusely cuneate, margins usually serrate or dentate to crenate, sometimes entire, apex acute.

petioles present;

blade oblanceolate to lanceolate, to 10 cm;

margins shallowly lobed, lobes rounded.

petioles usually present, rarely absent;

blade broadly ovate to lanceolate, to 10 cm, base not cordate-clasping, margins dentate to serrate.

green, inconspicuous, not concealing pedicel, ovary, or capsule.

(fruiting) 0.6–4 × less than 1 mm.

petals creamy yellow to orange, 6.5–13 × 3.5–7 mm, apex cuspidate, hairy on apex;

stamens 20–35, 6–11 mm, filaments heteromorphic, 5 outermost narrowly spatulate, inner filiform;

style 8–10 mm.

petals pale yellow to white, lanceolate to oblanceolate, 6–12 mm, apex acute;

stamens 3–12 mm (fertile 3–8 mm), 1/2 to ± equal petal length, 1–3(–5) outermost staminodial and petaloid (flowers appearing to have 6–8(–10) petals);

filaments heteromorphic, 1–3(–5) outermost oblanceolate, inner linear, all unlobed;

style 5–6.5 mm.

usually lingulate to funnelform, rarely ovoid, 10–18 × 4–5.8 mm, base rounded or cuneate, capsule and pedicel well-differentiated.

cylindric to ovoid, 9–13 × 5–7 mm, proximal nodding, distal erect.

(4–)6–8 per capsule, pyriform, without transverse folds.

constricted and grooved at middle;

seed coat anticlinal cell walls straight, obscure.

= 20.

= 20.