Flora of North America species comparison

with axillary end buds, usually glabrous, rarely puberulent.

with axillary end buds, glabrous.

deciduous; ± sessile;

blade narrowly elliptic, obovate, oblanceolate, or spatulate, 1–3 × 0.2–0.6 cm, base long-attenuate, margins usually serrulate, sometimes obscurely, teeth blunt, inconspicuously glandular, apex usually acute, sometimes obtuse, surfaces usually glabrous, sometimes puberulent.

deciduous;

petiole 6–20 mm, hairy on adaxial surface, usually glandular distally, glands 1–5;

blade narrowly elliptic, lanceolate, oblanceolate, or oblong-obovate, (5–)7–11(–13) × (2–)3–5.5 cm, base obtuse to rounded, margins singly to doubly crenate-serrate, teeth blunt, glandular, glands inconspicuous, blackish, apex long-acuminate, abaxial surface ± hairy along midribs and veins, adaxial glabrous or with hairs along midribs.

solitary flowers or 2-flowered fascicles.

2–4-flowered, umbellate fascicles.

(1–)4–12 mm, glabrous.

8–20 mm, glabrous.

blooming at leaf emergence;

hypanthium campanulate, 3–4 mm, usually glabrous, rarely puberulent externally;

sepals spreading, triangular, 1.5–2.5 mm, margins sparsely glandular-toothed, ciliate, surfaces glabrate;

petals usually dark pink, sometimes nearly white, elliptic, obovate, or suborbiculate, (5–)8–11 mm;

ovaries hairy.

blooming before or at leaf emergence;

hypanthium campanulate, 2–3 mm, glabrous externally;

sepals erect to reflexed, ovate, 1.5–3 mm, margins glandular-toothed, abaxial surface glabrous or sparsely hairy, adaxial densely hairy at bases;

petals white, obovate, 4–9 mm;

ovaries glabrous.

greenish yellow to red-orange, globose to asymmetrically obovoid, compressed, 10–18 mm, base cuneate-stipitate, apex mucronate, densely puberulent;

hypanthium persistent;

mesocarps leathery to dry (often splitting);

stones ellipsoid to subglobose, ± flattened.

red to yellowish with white dots, not or only slightly glaucous, globose, 20–30(–40) mm, glabrous;

mesocarps fleshy;

stones ovoid-ellipsoid, ± flattened.

= 16.