Flora of North America species comparison

with axillary end buds, glabrous or canescent.

with axillary end buds, tomentose.

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 1–4 mm, tomentose, eglandular;

blade elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 1.1–4 × 0.4–1.1 cm, base cuneate to obtuse, margins dentate, teeth blunt, glandular, glands discoid, apex acute, obtuse, or rounded, abaxial surface hairy to canescent, adaxial hairy.

solitary flowers or 2-flowered fascicles.

solitary flowers or 2-flowered fascicles.

0–4 mm, glabrous.

1–5 mm, tomentose.

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 mm, tomentose externally;

sepals reflexed, triangular, 1–1.7 mm, margins glandular-toothed, surfaces tomentose;

petals white, elliptic, 3–5 mm;

ovaries hairy.

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

hypanthium tardily deciduous;

mesocarps leathery to dry;

stones ovoid, ± flattened.

usually yellow to greenish yellow, sometimes tinged with red, ovoid, compressed, 8–15 mm, velutinous;

hypanthium tardily deciduous;

mesocarps fleshy;

stones ovoid, ± flattened.