Flora of North America species comparison

stout, columnar, at least partly sheathed with marcescent whole leaves.

ascending, 0.2–0.8 dm, lengths 1.5–2.5 times basal leaves.

petiole 1–4 cm, eglandular hairs absent or sparse, spreading, less than 1 mm, weak, glands abundant.

1.5–4 cm;

petiole 0.5–2 cm, long hairs absent or sparse to common (less so than cottony hairs), ± appressed, 1–2 mm, soft, smooth, cottony hairs dense, other hairs and glands absent, sparse, or obscured;

leaflets touching to overlapping, central broadly elliptic to obovate, 0.7–1.1 × 0.5–0.6 cm, sessile or short-petiolulate, petiolule to 1 mm, base cuneate, margins revolute, distal 1/2–3/4 incised ± 1/2 to midvein, teeth 2–4 per side, approximate, surfaces ± dissimilar, abaxial white to grayish white, long hairs 1 mm, cottony-crisped hairs dense, adaxial grayish green to grayish white, long and short-crisped hairs abundant to dense.

0–1.

1–2(–3)-flowered.

0.4–0.7 cm in flower, to 2 cm in fruit.

epicalyx bractlets lanceolate-elliptic to ovate, 2–4 × 0.8–2 mm;

sepals 3–5(–7) mm, apex broadly acute to obtuse;

petals 3.5–6.5 × 3–5 mm;

filaments 1–2.5 mm, anthers 0.5–0.6 mm;

carpels 10–15.

epicalyx bractlets lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 2–2.2 × 0.6–0.9 mm, 1/4–1/2 as wide as sepals, margins flat, red glands absent;

hypanthium 1.8–2.2 mm diam.;

sepals 3–3.5 mm, apex subacute;

petals 4–5 × 2.5–4 mm, longer than sepals;

filaments 1–1.5 mm, anthers 0.5 mm;

carpels 30–40, apical hairs absent, styles narrowly columnar, not or ± papillate-swollen in proximal 1/5 or less, 1.2–1.4 mm.

1–1.5 mm.

1.1–1.4 mm.