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).

persistent;

petiole 3–25 mm, glabrous, eglandular;

blade oblong-ovate to ovate-lanceolate or ovate to suborbiculate, 1.6–12 × 1.2–5(–7) cm, base usually broadly rounded to subcordate, sometimes obtuse, margins spinose-dentate to spinose-serrulate or entire, sometimes undulate, teeth sharp, callus-tipped, sometimes glandular at leaf base, apex acute to acuminate, surfaces glabrous, abaxial eglandular, if glands present, restricted to margins.

solitary flowers or 2-flowered fascicles.

15–40-flowered, racemes;

central axes 30–80 mm, leafless at bases.

0–4 mm, glabrous.

1–5 mm, glabrous.

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 leaf emergence;

hypanthium cupulate, 2–3 mm, glabrous externally;

sepals erect to spreading, triangular, 0.7–1.2 mm, margins entire, surfaces usually glabrous, rarely with scattered hairs;

petals white to yellowish, elliptic, obovate, or suborbiculate, 1–3 mm;

ovaries glabrous.

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

hypanthium tardily deciduous;

mesocarps leathery to dry;

stones ovoid, ± flattened.

dark red to purple or blue-black, obovoid or ellipsoid to globose, 12–25 mm, glabrous;

mesocarps leathery;

stones subglobose to ellipsoid, ± flattened.