Flora of North America species comparison

petiole 0.7–5.5 cm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular;

blade pentagonal, 3–7-lobed, cleft 1/2+ to midrib and again irregularly shallowly cleft, 1–7.8 cm, base truncate or cordate, surfaces glabrous or sparsely puberulent, sometimes glandular on main veins abaxially, sometimes with scattered, yellow, sessile, crystalline glands, lobes acutish, margins deeply 1 or 2 times crenate-dentate, apex acute.

petiole 1–2 cm, pubescent;

blade pentangular, 3–5-lobed, deeply cleft, 2–5 cm, base cordate to broad-cuneate, surfaces pubescent, lobes obtuse, margins crenulate-dentate, apex obtuse.

spreading to pendent, 5–18(–25)-flowered racemes, 3–4 cm, axis reddish stipitate-glandular and puberulent, flowers evenly spaced.

spreading, solitary flowers or 2–3-flowered racemes, 1–3 cm, axis glabrous or sparsely lanate and stipitate-glandular, flowers evenly spaced.

jointed (joint sometimes obscured by glands and difficult to see especially on short pedicels; may appear as darker line immediately proximal to ovary), 2–10 mm, glandular-bristly;

bracts linear-lanceolate, 1.8–4 mm, puberulent and reddish or purplish stipitate-glandular.

not jointed, 2–4 mm, glabrous or sparsely lanate;

bracts ovate, 1–3 mm, sparsely lanate, sparsely stipitate-glandular.

hypanthium cream to orangish, shallowly saucer-shaped to crateriform, (0.7–)1–1.2(–1.5) mm, glabrous;

sepals somewhat overlapping, spreading or reflexed, cream to pale yellowish green or dull reddish brown, reddish color deepening with age, very broadly ovate-oblong, 1.5–3.5 mm;

petals widely separated, erect, pale yellowish green distally and reddish proximally to reddish throughout, broadly fan-shaped to semicircular, cuneate-flabellate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 1–1.5(–1.7) mm;

nectary disc prominent, pinkish, raised, angled, covering most of ovary;

stamens slightly longer than petals;

filaments linear, 1.1–1.7 mm, glabrous;

anthers yellow, transversely oblong, 0.5–1 mm, broader than long, apex blunt;

ovary sparsely to thickly stipitate-glandular with slender, usually reddish- to purplish-tipped hairs, rarely glabrous;

styles connate to middle, 1.4–2 mm, glabrous.

hypanthium greenish, short-campanulate, 4–6 mm, pubescent;

sepals not overlapping, spreading, greenish abaxially, pink adaxially, strap-shaped, 5–7 mm;

petals not connivent, erect, white, ovate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 2–3 mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens 2 times longer than petals;

filaments linear, 4–6 mm, glabrous;

anthers cream, oblong-oval, 1–2 mm, apex rounded;

ovary sparsely hairy;

styles connate to tip, ca. 6 mm, villous in proximal 1/2.

palatable but insipid, red, becoming black or dark purple, ellipsoid, 4–8(–14) mm, slenderly stipitate-glandular, bristly with reddish stipitate-glandular hairs.

very palatable, greenish, ovoid, 10–20 mm, softly bristled.

= 16.