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 2–4 cm, puberulent to pubescent, stipitate-glandular;

blade broadly triangular, 3–5-lobed, cleft less than 1/2 to midrib, again 2–5 cleft, 2–5 cm, base truncate or cordate, surfaces thickly puberulent to pubescent, stipitate-glandular, lobes broad, rounded, margins coarsely crenate-denticulate, apex rounded.

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

pendent, solitary flowers or 2(–3)-flowered racemes, 2–4 cm, axis pubescent, stipitate-glandular.

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, 2–3 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular;

bracts deltate, 2–3 mm, pubescent, 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 or with some reddish tinge, tubular-campanulate, 2.5–3 mm, finely pilose, sparingly glandular;

sepals not overlapping, reflexed, cream suffused with pink, narrowly oblong, 5.5–9 mm;

petals connivent, erect, white, pinkish proximally, oblong, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 3.5–4 mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens as long as or slightly longer than petals;

filaments linear, 2–3 mm, glabrous;

anthers white, oblong, 0.8–1.2 mm, apex rounded;

ovary densely glandular-bristly;

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

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

palatability not known, reddish, subglobose, 10 mm, densely yellowish-spiny.

= 16.