Flora of North America species comparison

spreading, brown becoming grayish black, glabrous or finely stellate-hairy.

orientation not recorded, brown becoming gray, stellate-hairy, glabrescent.

stipules oblong to elliptic or obovate, 6 × 2.5 mm, base broad, apex rounded and erose to apiculate or acute;

petiole 1–2.5(–3) cm;

blade broadly ovate to orbiculate, 2–6 × 2.5–6 cm, sometimes wider than long, base truncate to slightly cordate, 3- or 5-lobed, clefts between lobes may be shallow to deep, margins doubly crenate to doubly serrate, apex rounded, obtuse, or acute, surfaces glabrous or sparsely stellate-hairy (more so on abaxial veins).

stipules oblong to narrowly elliptic or rhombic, 2–4 × 1.5–2 mm;

petiole 2–10 mm;

blade broadly ovate to orbiculate, 0.5–2 × 0.5–2 cm, slightly longer than wide, base rounded to truncate or slightly cordate, (0)3- or 5(7)-lobed, margins crenate to doubly crenate, apex rounded, abaxial surface more densely stellate-hairy (especially on veins), adaxial sparsely so.

15–20-flowered, fairly dense, hemispheric racemes, 2.5–4 cm diam.;

bracts narrowly obovate to spatulate, 4.5 mm, apex erose or acute.

5–10(–15)-flowered, open, umbel-like racemes, 3 cm diam.;

bracts similar to stipules.

8–15 mm, densely stellate-hairy.

0.6–1.5 cm, densely stellate-hairy.

5–8 mm diam.;

hypanthium campanulate, 1.5–2 mm, densely stellate-hairy;

sepals triangular to ovate, 2–3 mm, apex gland-tipped, surfaces densely stellate-hairy;

petals white, broadly elliptic to obovate or orbiculate, 4.5 × 4.5 mm;

stamens ca. 30, equal to or slightly exceeding petals;

carpels 2(3), connate at least 1/2 their lengths, densely stellate-hairy.

7 mm diam.;

hypanthium cup-shaped to campanulate, 1.5–3 mm, stellate-hairy;

sepals pale green to white, darker in center, triangular to narrowly ovate, 2.5–3 mm, apex gland-tipped, surfaces stellate-hairy;

petals white to pale pink, broadly obovate to orbiculate, 3 × 2.5 mm;

stamens 20–30, unequal (alternately long and short), shorter than petals, anthers pink to dark brown;

carpels 1(2), if 2 then connate at least 1/2 their lengths, indumentum not recorded.

1 or 2, pyriform, 1.5 mm.

1 or 2, 2 mm.

2(3), ovoid, flattened, 2.5 mm (lengths not exceeding sepals), keeled apically, densely stellate-hairy, hairs white;

styles 2.5–3 mm.

1(2), pale buff, shape not recorded, 3–6 mm (lengths equal to or slightly exceeding sepals), densely stellate-hairy;

styles 2.5 mm sometimes distinctly bent.