Flora of North America species comparison

with axillary end buds, glabrous.

with axillary end buds, hairy.

deciduous;

petiole 5–20 mm, glabrous except for a few hairs on adaxial surface, eglandular;

blade ovate, elliptic, or obovate, 3–7 × 1.5–3.5 cm, base obtuse, margins singly to doubly crenate-serrate, teeth blunt, glandular, apex obtuse to acute, abaxial surface hairy along midribs and veins, adaxial glabrous.

deciduous;

petiole 3–6 mm, hairy on adaxial surface, sometimes glandular distally, glands 1–2, discoid;

blade elliptic, 0.8–2.5 × 0.4–1.3 cm, base obtuse to rounded, margins crenulate-serrulate in distal 1/2, nearly entire on smaller leaves, teeth blunt, glandular, apex obtuse to rounded, mucronate, surfaces glabrous.

usually solitary flowers, sometimes 2-flowered fascicles.

solitary flowers.

(4–)10–18 mm, glabrous.

0–3 mm, glabrous.

blooming before leaf emergence;

hypanthium campanulate, 2–4 mm, glabrous externally;

sepals reflexed to spreading, oblong-ovate, 2–4 mm, margins glandular-toothed to nearly entire, eciliate, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial hairy at bases;

petals white (reddish pink in cultivars), elliptic to suborbiculate, 7–14 mm;

ovaries glabrous.

usually bisexual with some staminate flowers on same plant, blooming before leaf emergence;

hypanthium campanulate, 2–3 mm, glabrous externally;

sepals erect to spreading, ovate, 1–1.5 mm, margins entire, ciliate, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial hairy;

petals white, elliptic, 2 mm;

ovaries glabrous.

purple-red to yellow, sometimes glaucous, ovoid, ellipsoid, or globose, 15–30 mm, glabrous;

mesocarps fleshy;

stones ellipsoid to ovoid, ± to strongly flattened.

reddish, ovoid, 12–25 mm, glabrous;

mesocarps fleshy;

stones ovoid, ± flattened.

= 16.