Flora of North America species comparison

with axillary end buds, usually hairy, sometimes glabrous.

with axillary end buds, hairy.

deciduous;

petiole 6–20 mm, glabrous or hairy on adaxial surface or both surfaces, eglandular or glandular distally or on margins at bases of blades, glands 1–3;

blade elliptic to obovate, (2.5–)4–7(–9) × 1.5–5 cm, base cuneate to obtuse, margins singly to doubly crenate-serrate, teeth blunt, glandular, apex usually acute to abruptly acuminate, sometimes obtuse, abaxial surface hairy (especially along veins), adaxial glabrous or midribs hairy.

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.

solitary flowers or 2-flowered fascicles.

solitary flowers.

(2–)10–20 mm, glabrous or hairy.

0–3 mm, glabrous.

blooming before or at leaf emergence;

hypanthium cupulate, 3–5 mm, glabrous externally;

sepals spreading to reflexed, ovate-elliptic to lanceolate, 3.5–6 mm, margins glandular-toothed, ciliate, surfaces glabrous or hairy;

petals white, oblong 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.

blue-black (green, yellow, or red in cultivars), ellipsoid to globose, 15–35 mm, glabrous;

mesocarps fleshy;

stones ovoid to ellipsoid, strongly flattened.

reddish, ovoid, 12–25 mm, glabrous;

mesocarps fleshy;

stones ovoid, ± flattened.

= 48.