Flora of North America species comparison

petiole 0.6–1.8 cm, pubescent;

blade roundish, 3–5-lobed, cleft 1/3–3/4 to midrib, 1.2–2.5 cm, base truncate to cordate, surfaces glabrous, softly ciliate, or puberulent or densely hoary-pubescent, not glandular abaxially, puberulent adaxially, lobes rounded, margins toothed, apex rounded.

petiole 3–7 cm; glabrous or sparsely glandular;

blade pentangular, 5–7-lobed, cleft nearly to midrib, 3–8 cm, base cordate, surfaces glabrous or pubescent along veins abaxially, lobes deltate, margins serrate or 2 times serrate, apex acute.

pendent, solitary flowers or 2-flowered racemes, 2–4 cm, axis short-pubescent, stipitate-glandular.

erect or ascending, 6–15-flowered racemes, 3–5 cm, axis stipitate-glandular, flowers evenly spaced.

not jointed, 1–2 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular;

bracts broadly ovate, 4–5 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular.

jointed, 2–7 mm, pubescent and stipitate-glandular;

bracts linear, 1–2 mm, stipitate-glandular.

hypanthium maroon, narrowly tubular, 6 mm (1/2 as long as sepals), glabrous, puberulent, or densely hoary-pubescent, not stipitate-glandular;

sepals not overlapping, reflexed, maroon, lanceolate, 7–10 mm;

petals connivent, erect, white, oblong, inrolled, 3–5 mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens 1.5–2 times as long as petals;

filaments linear, 4–5 mm, glabrous;

anthers maroon, lanceolate, somewhat sagittate, 3–4 mm, apex apiculate;

ovary white-hairy and bristly, a few bristles gland-tipped;

styles connate nearly to middle, 9–11 mm, glabrous.

hypanthium greenish white, deeply saucer-shaped, 0.7–1 mm, glabrous or sparsely hairy, sometimes stipitate-glandular;

sepals not overlapping, spreading, white to pink, oblong-obovate from rounded sinuses, 1.5–2.5 mm;

petals widely separated, erect, pinkish, cuneate to flabellate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 0.5–1.5 mm;

nectary disc prominent, yellowish, flat, not angled, covering most of ovary;

stamens as long as or slightly longer than petals;

filaments linear, 1.5 mm, glabrous;

anthers cream or dark pink, ovate, 0.3–0.5 mm, apex shallowly notched;

ovary glandular-bristly;

styles connate 1/4 their lengths, 1.5 mm, glabrous, with few glands at base.

palatable, purple, globose, 14–25 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular, longer hairs not gland-tipped, with long, stout, glandular or eglandular spines.

palatable or unpalatable, dark red, ovoid, 6–8 mm, glandular-bristly.