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 1–5 cm, pubescent and stipitate-glandular;

blade roundish, 3–5-lobed, cleft nearly 1/4 to midrib, 2–6 cm, base deeply cordate, surfaces stipitate-glandular, glands colorless, and tomentose abaxially, rough-hairy adaxially, (dark green and rugose), lobes deltate, margins biserrate, apex obtuse.

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

pendent, 10–25-flowered racemes, 3–5 cm, axis stipitate-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, 1–2 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular;

bracts oblanceolate or wider, 6–9 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular.

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 pink, narrowly tubular-urceolate, 5–8 mm, stipitate-glandular abaxially, villous-pubescent adaxially;

sepals nearly overlapping at base, spreading, pink to purple, obovate, (1.5–)4–6 mm;

petals nearly connivent, erect, pink to white, oblong-elliptic, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 2–3 mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens nearly as long as petals;

filaments broader toward base, 0.6 mm, glabrous;

anthers white, ovate, 1.2–1.3 mm, apex minutely apiculate;

ovary densely stipitate-glandular;

styles connate nearly to stigmas, 6–7 mm, sparsely hairy.

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

palatable, purple, globose, 6–7 mm, hairs glandular.

= 16.