Flora of North America species comparison

spreading to ascending, ± glabrous.

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.

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.

1–2 cm, usually 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.

2(–5), pyriform, 2 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.