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 2.5–3.5 cm, pubescent;

blade roundish, 3-lobed, shallowly cleft, 4–6 cm, base cordate, surfaces densely hairy abaxially, with wavy, long, soft hairs adaxially, lobes rounded, margins crenate, with gland-tipped teeth, apex rounded.

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

erect, spike- or headlike, 15–25-flowered racemes, 3–6 cm, axis densely stipitate-glandular, flowers crowded into distal 1/4–1/3.

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

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

jointed, 1–2 mm, white-villous;

bracts lanceolate, 2–4 mm, white-villous.

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 rose-purple, broadly urceolate, 0.5–1 mm, villous-pubescent with some gland-tipped hairs;

sepals not to somewhat overlapping, spreading, rose-purple with darker veins, deltate-ovate, 2 mm;

petals nearly connivent, erect, pale rose-purple, flabellate to spatulate-obovate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 1 mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens nearly as long as petals;

filaments linear, 0.5 mm, glabrous;

anthers yellow, ovate, 0.2–0.3 mm, apex minutely apiculate;

ovary white-villous with some stipitate glands;

styles distinct to base, 1 mm, sparsely hairy proximally.

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

palatability not known, purple, globose-ovoid, 5–6 mm, lanate- or glandular-hairy.

= 16.