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 1.2–3 cm, crisped-puberulent, long stipitate-glandular;

blade reniform-orbiculate, shallowly 3–5-lobed, cleft 1/8–1/4 to midrib, 1.5–3 cm, base cordate to cuneate, surfaces pubescent, sessile- and stipitate-glandular, lobes rounded, margins crenate-dentate, apex rounded.

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

pendent, 6–10-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, 0.5–1 mm, pubescent stipitate-glandular;

bracts obovate, 3–7 mm, long 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 greenish white, tubular, tube evenly wide, 3–5 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular;

sepals not overlapping, spreading, white, ovate-oblong, 0.5–1 mm;

petals nearly connivent, erect, white, round to broadly ovate, revolute, 1 mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens nearly as long as petals;

filaments linear, 0.5 mm, glabrous;

anthers cream, ovate, 0.2–0.3 mm, apex with conspicuous, cup-shaped gland;

ovary stipitate-glandular;

styles connate 3/4 their lengths, 6 mm, glabrous.

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

palatable, black, globose, 5–8 mm, glandular-pubescent.

= 16.