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 lanceolate to linear, margins irregularly deeply lobed to dentate.

petiole absent;

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

petiole present or absent (proximal leaves), absent (distal leaves);

blade lanceolate to linear (proximal leaves), orbiculate to lanceolate (distal leaves), to 18 cm, margins irregularly deeply lobed to dentate proximally, dentate or entire distally.

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, orbiculate to ovate, 3.4–6.6 × 2.5–5.9 mm, width 3/4 to ± equal length, often concealing capsule, margins sinuate or 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 1–3 mm;

petals yellow, 2-5 mm, apex acute;

stamens 10–20, 1.5–4 mm, filaments heteromorphic, 5 outermost elliptic, distally 2-lobed, inner filiform, unlobed;

styles 2–3(–5) mm.

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

cylindric, 6–13 × 1.5–2.5 mm, axillary curved to 20° at maturity, usually inconspicuously, occasionally prominently, 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.

4–10, in 1 row distal to mid fruit, dark brown or tan, dark-mottled, triangular prisms, surface ±smooth to minutely tessellate under 10x magnification; recurved flap over hilum absent;

seed coat cell outer periclinal wall flat.

= 54.

= 18.