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 (0.1–)0.7–2(–4) cm, crisped-puberulent;

blade orbiculate or reniform-orbiculate, 3–5(–7)-lobed, cleft nearly to midrib, 0.5–1.6(–2.7) cm, base subcordate or truncate, surfaces usually glabrous, sometimes puberulent, rarely glandular-pubescent, lobes oblong to cuneate, margins with acute teeth, sometimes revolute, apex rounded.

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

pendent, solitary flowers or 2(–4)-flowered racemes, 1.5–2.5 cm, axis puberulent, 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, 0.5–1 mm, puberulent;

bracts lanceolate, 0.5–4 mm, (with 2 smaller bractlets immediately proximal to each flower), puberulent.

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 white to white, tubular, (2.3–)4–6 mm, softly hispid abaxially, glabrous adaxially;

sepals not overlapping, spreading, greenish white to white, lanceolate, (2.5–)3.5–7 mm;

petals nearly connivent, erect, cream with red margins, whitish or pinkish, oblanceolate to spatulate-obovate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 2–4.4 mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens nearly as long as petals;

filaments linear, 1.3–3 mm, glabrous;

anthers cream to violet, oval, 0.5–1.6 mm, apex with cup-shaped depression;

ovary pubescence not bristly, hairs soft;

styles connate nearly to stigmas, 0.7–1 mm, glabrous.

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

palatable, dark red to black, globose, 5–10 mm, glabrous, sometimes sparsely puberulent or glandular-pubescent.

= 16.

= 16.