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–)1.7–4.5(–6) cm, finely crisped-puberulent, with colorless, stipitate and sessile glands, stipitate glands on margins of stipular expansion;

blade rectangular, 3–5-lobed, shallowly to deeply cleft, 2–6(–7.5) cm, base cordate, surfaces glabrous or sparsely pubescent, ciliate, sometimes with dark, stipitate or sessile, minute glands, especially abaxially, lobes nearly triangular, margins dentate, apex acute to broadly obtuse.

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

erect to spreading, (5–)7–25-flowered racemes, (3.5–)4.5–9.5(–12) cm, axis finely crisped-puberulent and 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–)1.5–6(–8.3) mm, finely crisped-puberulent and stipitate-glandular;

bracts elliptic-lanceolate, (2.8–)3–5.2(–7) mm, puberulent-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 or pinkish, cup-shaped to turbinate, (0.8–)1.2–1.5(–2.1) mm, surfaces with scattered or dense, yellow or green, stipitate glands abaxially, glabrous adaxially;

sepals not overlapping, spreading, greenish or pinkish, lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, (2–)3.3–4.1 mm;

petals widely separated, erect, cream, yellowish green, or pinkish, obovate or flabellate-cuneate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 0.9–1.5 mm;

nectary disc not seen;

stamens slightly longer than petals;

filaments linear to slightly broader at base, 0.8–1.2 mm, glabrous;

anthers cream, oval, 0.5–0.6 mm, apex with dark, small depression;

ovary glandular-pubescent with green, yellow, or colorless, short-stipitate glands;

styles nearly distinct or connate to 1/2 their lengths, 1–2 mm, glabrous.

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

palatable, black, ovoid, 3–12 mm, glandular-pubescent.

= 16.