Flora of North America species comparison

spreading to erect, finely puberulent, often thickly sprinkled with small, nearly sessile to rather strongly stipitate glands;

spines at nodes absent;

prickles on internodes absent.

petiole 2–5.5 cm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular;

blade orbiculate, lobed into 3 main and 2 smaller segments, cleft 1/2 to midrib, 3–8 cm, base deeply cordate, surfaces puberulent and stipitate-glandular abaxially, glabrous adaxially, lobes ovate-deltate, margins 2 times crenate-serrate, apex acute.

pendent, 7–15-flowered racemes, 3–5 cm, axis crisped-puberulent, stipitate-glandular, flowers evenly spaced.

jointed, 2–8 mm, crisped-puberulent, stipitate-glandular;

bracts lanceolate, 6–8 mm, crisped-puberulent, stipitate-glandular.

hypanthium greenish white with pinkish tinge, shallowly bowl-shaped, 1–1.5 mm, crisped-puberulent, stipitate-glandular;

sepals nearly overlapping, spreading, tips usually recurved, pinkish or white streaked with pink, broadly oblong-ovate to nearly deltate-obovate, 2–3 mm;

petals very slightly connate or distinct, spreading with sepals, rose-red, obovate-cuneate, (inwardly pouched and nearly keeled in center), 1–1.5 mm;

nectary disc greenish or cream, raised, angled, covering ovary;

stamens nearly as long as petals;

filaments oblong, 1 mm, glabrous;

anthers cream, oval, 0.2–0.3 mm, apex acute;

ovary finely crisped-puberulent;

styles connate 3/4 their lengths, 0.7–1 mm, glabrous.

palatability not known, gray-black, spheric, to 10 mm, slightly pubescent, sparsely glandular.