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 0.5–4(–6) cm, glabrous or pubescent and stipitate-glandular;

blade broadly reniform to broadly ovate, 3–5-lobed, cleft 1/3–1/2 to midrib, 0.8–5 cm, base truncate to rounded-cuneate, surfaces finely pubescent or only between veins abaxially, lobes broad, rounded ternately, margins 1 or 2 times crenate-dentate, apex mucronate or apiculate.

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

pendent, solitary flowers or 2–4(–5)-flowered racemes, 4–6 cm, axis glabrous or pubescent, flowers evenly spaced.

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

bracts ovate, 0.5–2 mm, pubescent.

not jointed, 4–15 mm, glabrous;

bracts lanceolate, 1.2–3 mm, glabrous or finely ciliate.

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, pale greenish, greenish white, or cream, narrowly campanulate, 1.6–3 mm, glabrous, rarely very sparsely hirsute;

sepals not overlapping, sharply reflexed, white or very slightly pinkish, narrowly oblong to narrowly oblanceolate, 5–8 mm;

petals connivent, erect, white or very slightly pinkish with red veins, oblong to cuneate-obovate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 1.7–3.2 mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens 2.5–3 times as long as petals;

filaments linear, 6.5–9(–10) mm, finely pilose;

anthers cream to greenish, ovate-oblong, 0.8–1.6 mm, apex rounded;

ovary glabrous;

styles connate 1/2+ their lengths, 8–14 mm, pilose on proximal 1/2–3/4.

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

palatable but sour, yellow-green, becoming blue-black to purple, globose, 5.5–12 mm, glabrous.

= 16.