Flora of North America species comparison

with axillary end buds, glabrous.

with terminal end buds, glabrous.

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.

persistent;

petiole 14–20 mm, glabrous, eglandular;

blade elliptic, oblong-ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, 6–13 × 2.5–7 cm, base obtuse to rounded, margins crenate-dentate, teeth blunt, glandular, apex acuminate, surfaces glabrous, abaxial eglandular, if glands present, restricted to margins.

usually solitary flowers, sometimes 2-flowered fascicles.

18–60[–100]-flowered, racemes;

central axes 100–280 mm, leafless at bases.

(4–)10–18 mm, glabrous.

7–15(–22) 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.

blooming after leaf emergence;

hypanthium cupulate, 2.5–3.5 mm, glabrous externally;

sepals spreading to reflexed, semicircular, 1–1.5 mm, margins entire, ± ciliate, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial hairy;

petals white, suborbiculate to obovate, 4–7 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.

dark purple, ovoid to conic-ovoid, 8–12 mm, glabrous;

mesocarps fleshy to leathery;

stones ovoid, not flattened.

= 16.

= 32, 64.