Flora of North America species comparison

petiole 1–4 cm, pubescent, sometimes with longer setose hairs basally;

blade reniform, 3–5-lobed, cleft nearly to midrib, 5–10 cm, base cordate, surfaces with shiny, resinous glands, lobes broadly ovate, margins irregularly serrate, apex acute.

petiole 1–2.5 cm, pilose and with long-stalked glands, proximal hairs plumose;

blade roundish, 3-lobed, cleft 1/2 to midrib, 1–3 cm, base broadly cuneate, surfaces with pilose hairs and punctate glands abaxially, pilose, glandular adaxially, lobes rounded, parallel-sided, margins toothed, apex rounded.

pendent, 4–10-flowered racemes, 3–5 cm, axis pubescent, flowers evenly spaced.

spreading, solitary flowers or 2–4-flowered racemes, 3–6 cm, axis glandular or short stipitate-glandular and sparsely lanate to sparsely pilose, sometimes nearly glabrous, flowers evenly spaced.

jointed, 2–10 mm, glabrous or finely pubescent to lanate;

bracts ovate, 0.5–2 mm, pubescent.

not jointed, 6–16 mm, glabrous or sparsely lanate or pilose, glandular or eglandular;

bracts lanceolate, 2–2.5 mm, ciliate, with some glandular hairs on margins.

hypanthium green, cup-shaped or short-campanulate, 3–4 mm, densely pubescent or tomentose;

sepals not overlapping, reflexed, greenish or pinkish abaxially, suffused with purple adaxially, oblong, 5–7 mm;

petals nearly connivent, erect, white to reddish, bluntly deltate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 1.5–3 mm;

nectary disc prominent, green or purplish, circular, covering ovary;

stamens slightly longer than petals;

filaments linear, 2–2.5 mm, glabrous with some glands;

anthers white, sagittate, 1 mm, apex blunt;

ovary pubescent, sessile-glandular;

styles connate nearly to stigmas, 3 mm, very finely hairy.

hypanthium white, broadly campanulate, 1–2 mm, scattered-hairy to subvillous;

sepals not overlapping, spreading, white, oblanceolate, 7.5–9 mm;

petals connivent, erect, white, rhombic, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 1.2–2 mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens 4–5 times longer than petals;

filaments slightly expanded to base, 6–7.5 mm, pilose;

anthers cream, oblong-oval, 0.7–0.8 mm, apex rounded;

ovary pilose, sessile- and short stipitate-glandular;

styles connate 3/4 their lengths, 8–11 mm, copiously pilose-villous to above midlength.

sweet-tasting, black, globose, 12–15 mm, glabrous with some sessile glands.

palatability not known, greenish to reddish purple, globose, 7–12 mm, glabrous or hairy and glandular.