Flora of North America species comparison

persisting;

petiole present or absent;

blade lanceolate to linear, margins deeply to shallowly lobed.

petioles present or absent;

blade lanceolate, to 10(–16) cm;

margins shallowly to deeply lobed, lobes acute.

petiole absent;

blade ovate to linear, to 12 cm, margins deeply lobed to dentate.

petioles absent;

blade ovate to lanceolate, to 10(–16) cm, base often cordate-clasping, margins deeply to shallowly lobed, lobes acute.

green, ovate to lanceolate, 6.6–12.8 × 1.9–6.8 mm, width 1/5–2/3 length, not concealing capsule, margins 3–7-lobed.

white with green margins, conspicuous, concealing pedicel, ovary, and capsule.

sepals 3–13 mm;

petals red to orange proximally, orange to yellow distally, 8–22 mm, apex mucronate, rounded, or retuse;

stamens 20+, 4–11 mm, filaments monomorphic, filiform, unlobed;

styles 5–13 mm.

petals white to pale yellow, usually with orange veins, obovate, 13–65 mm, apex mucronate;

stamens 4–26 mm, less than 1/2 petal length, all fertile, none petaloid (flowers appearing to have 5 petals);

filaments ± monomorphic, linear, distally 2-lobed, lobes 0.5–2 mm;

anther stalk shorter or longer than filament lobes;

style 8–30 mm.

clavate, 12–35 × 2–4 mm, axillary curved to 90° at maturity, usually inconspicuously longitudinally ribbed.

cylindric to cup-shaped, 14–25(–30) × 5–10 mm, erect.

20–40, in 2+ rows distal to mid fruit, tan, dark-mottled or not, usually irregularly polygonal, occasionally triangular prisms proximal to mid fruit, surface tuberculate under 10x magnification; recurved flap over hilum absent;

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

usually constricted proximal to middle;

seed coat anticlinal cell walls wavy.

= 18.

= 18.