Flora of North America species comparison

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.

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.

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

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

not jointed, 4–15 mm, glabrous;

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

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.

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.

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.

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

= 16.

= 16.