Flora of North America species comparison

spreading to ascending, ± glabrous.

spreading, brown becoming grayish black, glabrous or finely 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.

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).

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.

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

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

1–2 cm, usually stellate-hairy.

8–15 mm, 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.

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.

2(–5), pyriform, 2 mm.

1 or 2, pyriform, 1.5 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.

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

styles 2.5–3 mm.

= 18.