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 2–2.5 cm, puberulent;

blade roundish, irregularly 3(–5)-lobed, cleft 1/2+ to midrib, 2–5 cm, base broadly truncate, surfaces hairy, stipitate-glandular, lobes broadly cuneate, sides mostly straight or concave, margins very irregularly blunt-toothed, apex rounded.

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

pendent, solitary flowers or 2–3-flowered racemes, 1–1.5 cm, axis villous, 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.

not jointed, 2–4 mm, villous, stipitate-glandular;

bracts lanceolate-ovate, 2–3 mm, villous, 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 green, campanulate, 2–4 mm (as wide as long), sparsely pubescent to villous;

sepals not overlapping, reflexed, green to white, narrowly oblong, abaxially shallowly concave, 6 mm;

petals separated, erect, white, oblong-truncate, somewhat inrolled, 2–3 mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens shorter than to as long as petals;

filaments linear, 2–2.5 mm, glabrous;

anthers white, narrowly oblong, 1–1.8 mm, apex blunt;

ovary densely villous with some gland-tipped bristles;

styles connate 1/2 their lengths, 4–6 mm, glabrous.

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

palatability not known, light yellow, globose, 8–10 mm, hairs nonglandular, bristles glandular, developing into spines.

= 16.