Flora of North America species comparison

petiole 1–3 cm, pilose and stipitate-glandular;

blade pentangular, 3–5-lobed, cleft (1/3–)1/2–3/4 to midrib, 1.7–5 cm, base truncate to cordate, surfaces glabrate or pubescent abaxially, pilose and sometimes with stipitate-glandular hairs adaxially, lobes deltate or cuneate-deltate, margins with rounded teeth, apex rounded or broadly acute.

petiole 0.7–2 cm, hairy, with longer and often plumose hairs and elongated glands near base, short-stipitate glands absent;

blade roundish, 3-lobed, cleft nearly to midrib, 1.7–3 cm, base broadly cuneate to rounded or subcordate, sometimes truncate, surfaces not glandular, villous-tomentose abaxially, puberulent to hirsute, glabrescent adaxially, lobes straight-sided to sometimes cuneate, margins toothed, apex rounded.

spreading, solitary flowers or 2(–4)-flowered corymbs, 4–5 cm, axis pilose and stipitate-glandular.

pendent, solitary flowers or 2–4-flowered corymbs, 3–5 cm, axis glabrous or sparsely lanate to pilose and puberulent, sparingly stipitate-glandular, flowers evenly spaced.

not jointed (sometimes with abcission layer at bract junction), 5–16 mm, glabrous or pilose and stipitate-glandular;

bracts lanceolate to ovate, 1.5–2.5 mm, hairy and glandular on margins.

not jointed, 5–13 mm, glabrous;

bracts broadly ovate, 2–2.5 mm, ciliate.

hypanthium greenish white, campanulate, 1.8–4 mm, glabrous or scattered-hairy;

sepals not overlapping, erect to recurved, greenish, oblong, 1.5–4 mm;

petals widely separated, erect, white, obovate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 1–2.5 mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens as long as or slightly longer than petals;

filaments linear, 1–2 mm, glabrous;

anthers greenish yellow, oval, 0.4–0.6 mm, apex rounded;

ovary setose with eglandular or gland-tipped bristles, sometimes sparsely villous;

styles connate to middle or 0.8 mm proximal to stigmas, 4.5–7 mm, villous on proximal 1/2 or glabrous.

hypanthium greenish white, narrowly tubular, 1.5–2.5 mm, glabrous;

sepals not overlapping, spreading to reflexed, pale green to white, linear-oblong, 5–7 mm;

petals connivent, erect, pale green to nearly white, becoming pink tinged, cuneate-obovate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 2–3.5 mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens 3–5 times as long as petals;

filaments linear, 15 mm, glabrous;

anthers cream to pale pink, oblong-sagittate, 2 mm, apex rounded;

ovary glabrous;

styles connate nearly 7/8 their lengths, 10–14 mm, glabrous.

palatable, greenish to pale red, globose, 7–15 mm, densely bristly or spiny.

palatable, red to purple, globose, 7–12 mm, glabrous.

= 16.

= 16.