Flora of North America species comparison

with axillary end buds, glabrous.

with terminal end buds, glabrous.

deciduous;

petiole 1–7 mm, glabrous, eglandular;

blade elliptic, ovate, or suborbiculate, 0.6–3 × 0.5–2 cm, base obtuse to rounded, subcordate, or truncate, margins obscurely crenulate, crenulate-serrulate, or serrate, teeth blunt, glandular, apex usually obtuse to rounded, sometimes emarginate, surfaces glabrous.

persistent;

petiole 5–15 mm, glabrous, eglandular;

blade elliptic to obovate, 6–18 × 3–7 cm, base cuneate to obtuse, margins remotely serrulate or nearly entire, teeth blunt, glandular, apex abruptly short-acuminate, apicula acute, surfaces glabrous, abaxial glandular, glands 1–several, proximal, flat, circular to oval.

1–3-flowered, umbellate fascicles.

26–32-flowered, racemes;

central axes (35–)55–130 mm, leafless at bases.

2–12 mm, glabrous.

1–5 mm, glabrous.

blooming at leaf emergence;

hypanthium campanulate, 2–4 mm, glabrous externally;

sepals erect-spreading, semicircular to ovate, 1.2–4 mm, margins glandular-toothed, ciliate, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial hairy;

petals usually white, sometimes pinkish rose, elliptic, obovate, or suborbiculate, 3–10 mm;

ovaries hairy.

blooming before leaf emergence;

hypanthium cupulate, 3–4 mm, glabrous externally;

sepals spreading, triangular, 0.7–1.2 mm, margins usually entire, sometimes with deciduous glands, ciliate in spots, surfaces glabrous or hairy;

petals white, obovate or broadly elliptic to suborbiculate, 3–5 mm;

ovaries glabrous.

yellowish, ellipsoid-ovoid, 8–15 mm, densely puberulent;

mesocarps leathery to dry (splitting);

stones ovoid, ± flattened.

deep purple-red to nearly black, ovoid to conic-ovoid, 13–17 mm, glabrous;

mesocarps fleshy to leathery;

stones ovoid, not flattened.