Flora of North America species comparison

with axillary end buds, glabrous or canescent.

with axillary end buds, densely hairy.

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 3–8 mm, densely hairy, usually eglandular, sometimes glandular distally, glands 1–3, discoid;

blade usually ovate or elliptic, rarely obovate, 2–5(–7) × 1–2.5(–3.6) cm, base obtuse to cuneate, margins finely, singly or doubly serrulate, teeth sharp, usually eglandular, sometimes glandular, glands blackish, spheric, apex acute to obtuse, abaxial surface densely hairy, adaxial sparsely hairy.

solitary flowers or 2-flowered fascicles.

2–4(–6)-flowered, umbellate fascicles.

0–4 mm, glabrous.

4–15 mm, hairy.

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 before or at leaf emergence;

hypanthium campanulate, 2–3 mm, hairy externally;

sepals erect to spreading, ovate-oblong, 1.5–2.5 mm, margins usually entire, sometimes glandular-toothed or eglandular, sometimes ciliate, surfaces hairy;

petals white, oblong to obovate, 4–7 mm;

ovaries glabrous.

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

hypanthium tardily deciduous;

mesocarps leathery to dry;

stones ovoid, ± flattened.

yellow, orange, or red, slightly glaucous, globose to ellipsoid, 9–18 mm, glabrous;

mesocarps fleshy;

stones subglobose to ellipsoid, ± flattened.