Flora of North America species comparison

often decumbent, spreading, reddish brown becoming dark gray, glabrous or sparsely stellate-hairy.

spreading to ascending, ± glabrous.

stipules linear to narrowly elliptic or subulate, 4–5 × 1 mm, base attenuate, apex acute;

petiole 0.5–2.2 cm;

blade broadly ovate, 1.5–4 × 2–4.5 cm, sometimes wider than long, base usually truncate to cordate, rarely broadly cuneate, 0 or 1–5-lobed, margins doubly crenate to doubly serrate, apex rounded to obtuse, surfaces glabrous or sparsely stellate-hairy.

stipules narrowly ovate, 6–10 × 1.5–2.5 mm, apex acute;

petiole 1–3 cm;

blade ovate to obovate, 6–8.5(–10) × 4–7(–10) cm, usually longer than wide, base broadly cuneate to truncate, 3(–5)-lobed, margins irregularly serrate, apex obtuse to rounded, surfaces mostly glabrous, sometimes sparsely hairy abaxially.

10(–15)–30-flowered, fairly dense, hemispheric racemes, 4 cm diam.;

bracts linear to narrowly elliptic or narrowly obovate, 2–4 mm, apex acute, rarely 2-fid.

30–50-flowered, open, hemispheric racemes, 5 cm diam.;

bracts elliptic to spatulate or rhombic, 5 × 2.5 mm, apex acute to 3-fid or coarsely erose, faces glandular.

8–18 mm, sparsely to moderately stellate-hairy.

1–2 cm, usually stellate-hairy.

8–10 mm diam.;

hypanthium cup-shaped, 1.7–2 mm, sparsely to moderately stellate-hairy;

sepals triangular to ovate, 3 mm, apex gland-tipped, surfaces sparsely to moderately stellate-hairy;

petals white, broadly elliptic to orbiculate, 4.5 × 4 mm;

stamens 20–40, ± equal to petals;

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

7–10 mm diam.;

hypanthium cup-shaped, 1.5–2 mm, glabrous or sparsely stellate-hairy;

sepals pale green to white, darker in center, triangular, 1.5–2.5 mm, apex mucronate, gland-tipped, surfaces usually stellate-hairy;

petals white to pale pink, broadly elliptic to orbiculate, 4–5 × 4–5 mm;

stamens equal to or exceeding petals, anthers purplish;

carpels 3–5, connate basally, sparsely stellate-hairy, glabrescent.

1–3, pyriform, 2–2.5 mm.

2(–5), pyriform, 2 mm.

(1)2(3), inflated, 2.5 mm (lengths shorter than sepals), densely stellate-hairy, hairs white;

styles 3.5 mm.

3–5, connate basally, bright red to brownish red, ovoid, 5–10 mm (lengths ca. 2 times sepals), sparsely stellate-hairy, ± glabrescent;

styles 4 mm.

= 18.

= 18.