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 1–2 cm, glabrous;

blade ovate to obovate, 3-lobed, cleft barely 1/8 to midrib, 1.5–3.5 cm, base cuneate to rounded, surfaces glabrous abaxially, strigillose adaxially, lobes rounded, margins deeply serrate, apex obtuse.

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

nodding, 10–15-flowered racemes, staminate 2–3 cm, pistillate 1–2 cm, axis glabrous, glandular, flowers evenly spaced.

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

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

jointed, 2–4 mm, pubescent and stipitate-glandular;

bracts lanceolate to ligulate, 4–6 mm, glabrous.

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.

unisexual;

hypanthium yellowish green, rotate, 1–1.5 mm, glabrous;

sepals not overlapping, erect, greenish, ovate, 1.5–2 mm;

petals widely separated, erect, greenish yellow, cuneate-orbiculate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 0.5–1 mm;

nectary disc not seen;

stamens nearly as long as petals;

filaments linear, 0.2–0.5 mm, glabrous;

anthers cream, dumbbell-shaped, 0.2 mm, apex with depressed callus, (pollen absent in pistillate flowers);

ovary (absent in staminate flowers) glabrous;

styles connate almost to stigmas, 0.5 mm, glabrous.

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

palatable, red, globose to globose-ovoid, 5–10 mm, glabrous.

= 16.