Flora of North America species comparison

petiole 1–5 cm, pubescent and stipitate-glandular;

blade roundish, 3–5-lobed, cleft nearly 1/4 to midrib, 2–6 cm, base deeply cordate, surfaces stipitate-glandular, glands colorless, and tomentose abaxially, rough-hairy adaxially, (dark green and rugose), lobes deltate, margins biserrate, apex obtuse.

petiole 1–3 cm, pilose and stipitate-glandular;

blade pentangular, 3–5-lobed, cleft (1/3–)1/2–3/4 to midrib, 1.7–5 cm, base truncate to cordate, surfaces glabrate or pubescent abaxially, pilose and sometimes with stipitate-glandular hairs adaxially, lobes deltate or cuneate-deltate, margins with rounded teeth, apex rounded or broadly acute.

pendent, 10–25-flowered racemes, 3–5 cm, axis stipitate-glandular, flowers evenly spaced.

spreading, solitary flowers or 2(–4)-flowered corymbs, 4–5 cm, axis pilose and stipitate-glandular.

jointed, 1–2 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular;

bracts oblanceolate or wider, 6–9 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular.

not jointed (sometimes with abcission layer at bract junction), 5–16 mm, glabrous or pilose and stipitate-glandular;

bracts lanceolate to ovate, 1.5–2.5 mm, hairy and glandular on margins.

hypanthium pink, narrowly tubular-urceolate, 5–8 mm, stipitate-glandular abaxially, villous-pubescent adaxially;

sepals nearly overlapping at base, spreading, pink to purple, obovate, (1.5–)4–6 mm;

petals nearly connivent, erect, pink to white, oblong-elliptic, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 2–3 mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens nearly as long as petals;

filaments broader toward base, 0.6 mm, glabrous;

anthers white, ovate, 1.2–1.3 mm, apex minutely apiculate;

ovary densely stipitate-glandular;

styles connate nearly to stigmas, 6–7 mm, sparsely hairy.

hypanthium greenish white, campanulate, 1.8–4 mm, glabrous or scattered-hairy;

sepals not overlapping, erect to recurved, greenish, oblong, 1.5–4 mm;

petals widely separated, erect, white, obovate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 1–2.5 mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens as long as or slightly longer than petals;

filaments linear, 1–2 mm, glabrous;

anthers greenish yellow, oval, 0.4–0.6 mm, apex rounded;

ovary setose with eglandular or gland-tipped bristles, sometimes sparsely villous;

styles connate to middle or 0.8 mm proximal to stigmas, 4.5–7 mm, villous on proximal 1/2 or glabrous.

palatable, purple, globose, 6–7 mm, hairs glandular.

palatable, greenish to pale red, globose, 7–15 mm, densely bristly or spiny.

= 16.