Flora of North America species comparison

petiole 1–3 cm, pilose with glandular and eglandular hairs, some plumose hairs at base;

blade roundish to nearly reniform, 3- (or 5-)lobed, cleft 1/2 to midrib, proximal segments again shallowly cleft into 2 unequal lobes, 2–3.5 cm, base rounded to cordate, surfaces pubescent abaxially, subglabrous or finely pubescent adaxially, lobes cuneate, margins prominently crenate-serrate, apex rounded.

petiole ca. 0.5 cm, tomentose;

blade roundish, shallowly 3(–5)-lobed, cleft nearly 1/4 to midrib, 1–3 cm, base truncate, surfaces glabrous, glabrate, or hairy, not glandular, lobes broadly oblong, sides parallel, margins with 2–4 blunt teeth, apex rounded.

pendent, solitary flowers or 2–4-flowered racemes, 2–4 cm, axis glabrous or pilose, flowers evenly spaced.

ascending, solitary flowers or 2–3-flowered racemes, 1.5–4 cm, axis glabrous or with few stipitate glands, flowers evenly spaced.

not jointed, 3–12 mm, glabrous or pilose;

bracts oval, 1–2 mm, glabrous or ciliate with stiff hairs and glands.

not jointed, 6–8 mm, pubescent, sparsely stipitate-glandular;

bracts broadly ovate, 3–5 mm, glabrous or sparsely hairy.

hypanthium greenish or purplish, obconic, 1.5–3.5 mm, glabrous or copiously pubescent;

sepals not overlapping, spreading-reflexed, red or reddish or purplish green, narrowly oblong-deltate, 3.4–6 mm;

petals distally nearly connivent to overlapping, erect, white or pink to red, cuneate-lunate to obovate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 1.2–3 mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens 2.5–3.5 times as long as petals;

filaments linear, 3.5–7 mm, glabrous;

anthers cream, oval, 1 mm, apex rounded;

ovary glabrous;

styles connate ca. 1/2 their lengths, 5–11 mm, copiously pilose-villous in proximal 3/4.

hypanthium greenish, broadly tubular, 2 mm, glabrous or puberulent;

sepals not overlapping, reflexed, dark red or green tinged with dark red, deltate-ovate, 6–8 mm;

petals connivent, erect, white, oblong, inrolled, 2–4 mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens 0.9–4 times as long as petals, sometimes slightly shorter or longer than petals;

filaments linear, 6–8 mm, glabrous;

anthers greenish yellow, lanceolate, somewhat sagittate, 1.8–2 mm, apex apiculate;

ovary with longer, glandless bristles among gland-tipped hairs;

styles connate nearly to middle, 8–10 mm, glabrous.

palatable, purplish black, subglobose, 6–12 mm, glabrous.

palatable, red, globose, 9–10 mm, bristles stiff, glandular and eglandular.

= 16.