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 1–3 cm, puberulent, stipitate-glandular;

blade roundish, deeply 3-lobed, cleft 1/2+ to midrib, sometimes with 2 shorter lobes proximally, 1–3 cm, base truncate to cordate, surfaces puberulent and stipitate-glandular, lobes cuneate, rounded, margins acutely 2–4-toothed, apex blunt-toothed.

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

spreading, 2–3-flowered racemes, 1–1.5 cm, axis puberulent and 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, 1–1.5 mm, densely puberulent and glandular;

bracts broadly ovate, 1–1.5 mm, puberulent and glandular.

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 yellow, tubular, 2–3 mm, puberulent;

sepals not overlapping, reflexed, yellow, narrowly oblong, 3 mm;

petals connivent, erect, white, narrowly obovate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 1 mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens slightly longer than petals;

filaments linear, 1 mm, glabrous;

anthers yellow, oval, 0.7–1 mm, apex with cup-shaped depression;

ovary subglabrous;

styles completely connate, 4.5 mm, glabrous.

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

palatable, black, globose, 7–8 mm, glabrous.

= 16.