Flora of North America species comparison

persisting;

petiole present or absent;

blade linear-lanceolate, margins deeply to shallowly lobed.

persisting;

petiole present or absent;

blade linear, margins usually shallowly lobed, lobes rounded.

petiole absent;

blade ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, to 17 cm, margins usually deeply lobed to dentate, rarely entire.

petiole absent;

blade ovate-lanceolate to linear, to 12 cm, margins shallowly lobed or entire.

usually green with prominent white base usually conspicuously extending outwards from midvein, rarely green, usually ovate, rarely lanceolate, 3.3–6.2 × 1.5–3.2 mm, width 1/4–7/8 length, not concealing capsule, margins usually 3–7-lobed, rarely entire.

green, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 3.6–4.7 × 1.6–2.3 mm, width 1/3–1/2 length, not concealing capsule, margins entire.

sepals 2–5 mm;

petals red to orange proximally, orange to yellow distally, 4–7(–10) mm, apex retuse;

stamens 20+, 3–7 mm, filaments monomorphic, filiform, unlobed;

styles (3–)3.5–6 mm.

sepals 2–4 mm;

petals yellow to orange proximally, yellow distally, 2–6 mm, apex acute or rounded;

stamens 10–30, 2–4 mm, filaments monomorphic, filiform, unlobed;

styles 2–4 mm.

clavate, 8–28 × 2–4 mm, axillary curved to 70° at maturity, usually inconspicuously longitudinally ribbed.

clavate, 12–27 × 1–2.5 mm, axillary curved to 180° at maturity, usually inconspicuously longitudinally ribbed.

15–35, in 2+ rows distal to mid fruit, tan, dark-mottled, 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 or equal to 1/2 as tall as wide at maturity.

10–50, 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 tessellate under 10x magnification; recurved flap over hilum absent;

seed coat cell outer periclinal wall flat to slightly convex.

= 54.

= 18.