Flora of North America species comparison

with terminal end buds, glabrous.

with axillary end buds, usually glabrous, sometimes hairy.

deciduous;

petiole 10–24 mm, glabrous, usually eglandular, sometimes with discoid marginal glands at bases of blades;

blade broadly elliptic to ovate or obovate, 4.4–6(–8) × 2.8–4(–6) cm, base obtuse to rounded, margins doubly crenate-serrate, teeth blunt, glandular, apex acute to abruptly acuminate, abaxial surface glabrous or glabrate, adaxial glabrous.

deciduous;

petiole 4–18 mm, hairy, rarely only adaxially, usually glandular distally, glands 1–2(–4);

blade usually elliptic, sometimes broadly elliptic, obovate, ovate, or oblong, 6–12 × 3–7 cm, base usually obtuse to broadly rounded, sometimes subcordate, margins coarsely, doubly serrate, teeth sharp, eglandular, apex usually abruptly acuminate to acuminate, rarely acute, abaxial surface densely hairy, adaxial rugose, glabrous or hairy.

1–4-flowered, umbellate fascicles.

2–5-flowered, umbellate fascicles.

8–37 mm, glabrous.

4–20 mm, usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely hairy.

blooming at leaf emergence;

hypanthium tubular-campanulate, 4–6 mm, glabrous externally;

sepals reflexed, oblong, 4–7 mm, margins regularly glandular-toothed, surfaces glabrous;

petals white, suborbiculate, 10–14 mm;

ovaries glabrous.

blooming before leaf emergence;

hypanthium obconic, 2–4.5 mm, glabrous or hairy externally;

sepals reflexed, ovate to lanceolate, 1.5–4 mm, margins entire or irregularly or obscurely glandular-toothed, sometimes 2-fid at apices, ciliate, surfaces hairy;

petals white, sometimes turning pink, elliptic to obovate, 5–10 mm;

ovaries glabrous.

bright red, globose, 13–20 mm, glabrous;

mesocarps fleshy;

stones subglobose, not flattened.

purplish red to dark blue, glaucous, subglobose to ellipsoid, 15–30 mm, glabrous;

mesocarps fleshy;

stones ovoid-ellipsoid, strongly flattened.

= 32.