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 0.8–2 cm, glabrous or short-pilose;

blade obovate to rotund, 3-lobed, cleft 1/2 to midrib, 1.5–5 cm, base widely cuneate to truncate, surfaces glabrous or puberulent, lobes oblong, margins with rounded teeth, apex acute.

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

pendent, solitary flowers or 2–3-flowered racemes, 3–5 cm, axis glabrous or sparsely stipitate-glandular.

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

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

not jointed, 4–7 mm, glabrous;

bracts ovate, 1.5–2 mm, glabrous or with few short glands.

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 green, tubular-campanulate to narrowly tubular, 1.5–2.5 mm, glabrous;

sepals not overlapping, reflexed, green suffused with red, oblanceolate, 3.5–5 mm;

petals not connivent, erect, cream with green or reddish tint, spatulate-obovate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 2–2.5 mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens 2.5–4 times longer than petals;

filaments linear, 6–8 mm, pilose;

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

ovary glabrous;

styles connate to middle, 6–8 mm, villous in proximal 1/2.

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

palatable, pale purple, globose, 7–12 mm, glabrous.