Flora of North America species comparison

with axillary end buds, glabrous or canescent.

with terminal end buds, glabrous.

deciduous;

sessile;

blade oblanceolate to linear, 0.5–2 × 0.1–0.2(–0.4) cm, base long-attenuate, margins nearly entire or obscurely and remotely serrulate in distal 1/3, teeth blunt to sharp, sometimes glandular, apex rounded to acute, surfaces puberulent or glabrous or low-papillate (var. punctata).

deciduous;

petiole 1–6 mm, hairy on adaxial surface, eglandular;

blade narrowly elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, 2.5–9 × 0.9–2.5 cm, base cuneate to obtuse, margins crenulate-serrulate, teeth blunt, glandular, apex acute to acuminate, abaxial surface glabrous or slightly hairy along midribs and veins, adaxial glabrous.

solitary flowers or 2-flowered fascicles.

solitary flowers or 2-flowered fascicles.

0–4 mm, glabrous.

6–15 mm, glabrous or sparsely puberulent.

unisexual, plants dioecious, blooming at leaf emergence;

hypanthium campanulate, 1.5–3 mm, glabrous externally;

sepals erect-spreading, triangular, 0.7–1 mm, margins entire, surfaces glabrous;

petals white to yellowish, elliptic, obovate, or suborbiculate, 1.4–2.5(–4) mm;

ovaries hairy.

blooming at leaf emergence;

hypanthium campanulate, 2–3 mm, glabrous or sparsely puberulent externally;

sepals spreading to reflexed, ovate, 2.5–5 mm, margins glandular-toothed, ± ciliate, surfaces glabrous or sparsely puberulent;

petals 25+, white or pink, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 8–11 mm;

ovaries glabrous.

gray to red-brown, ovoid, ± compressed, 7–15 mm, densely puberulent;

hypanthium tardily deciduous;

mesocarps leathery to dry;

stones ovoid, ± flattened.

reddish, subglobose, 10–15 mm, glabrous;

mesocarps fleshy;

stones subglobose, not flattened.