Flora of North America species comparison

petiole 2–7 cm, puberulent, short stipitate-glandular;

blade broadly reniform or cordate-orbiculate to deltate-ovate, nearly equally to irregularly 5-lobed, cleft nearly 1/4 to midrib, 2–7 cm, base subtruncate to cordate, surfaces puberulent to whitish-tomentose abaxially, puberulent adaxially or puberulent and colorless, sessile-glandular on both surfaces, lobes deltate to obtuse, margins finely 2–3 times crenate and denticulate or serrate, apex broadly acute.

petiole 0.7–1.5(–2) cm, pilose;

blade roundish to rhombic, 5–7-lobed, cleft nearly 1/2 to midrib, 1–2.5 cm, base broadly cuneate to truncate, surfaces softly pubescent to glabrous, not glandular, lobes cuneate, long-deltate, margins toothed, apex broadly acute.

pendent to stiffly spreading or ascending or erect, 5–40-flowered racemes, 5–15 cm, axis crisped-pubescent and stipitate-glandular, flowers evenly spaced.

pendent, solitary flowers or 2–3-flowered corymbs, 0.5–1.5 cm, axis glabrous or sparsely pilose.

jointed, 5–10 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular;

bracts oblanceolate or lanceolate, 2–12 mm, with scattered, short hairs and stalked glands.

not jointed, 2–5 mm, glabrous;

bracts ovate to deltate, 1–2 mm, villous-ciliate with simple hairs.

hypanthium white, pink, rose, or red, tubular to campanulate, 3–7 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular;

sepals not overlapping, spreading or reflexed, white, pink, or red, ovate-elliptic or oblong to oblanceolate or lanceolate, 4–5 mm;

petals not or nearly connivent to connivent, erect, white or pink to red, obovate-spatulate to oblong or almost square, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 1–3.5 mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens shorter than to as long as petals;

filaments linear or slightly expanded at base, 1.2–2 mm, glabrous;

anthers cream, oblong-oval, 0.5–0.8 mm, apex shallowly notched;

ovary stipitate-glandular to strongly stipitate-glandular and crisped-puberulent;

styles connate nearly to stigmas, 4–6 mm, glabrous or with scattered, stipitate glands at base.

hypanthium greenish white, obconic to campanulate, 2–3 mm, glabrous or pilose to densely pilose;

sepals not overlapping, erect, recurved in age, greenish white or with purplish tinge along margins, broadly oblong, 3–4 mm;

petals connivent, erect, white to purple tinged, spatulate-obovate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 1.7–2.5 mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens 2 times as long as petals;

filaments linear, 3–4.5 mm, glabrous;

anthers cream, oval, 0.2–0.3 mm, apex rounded;

ovary glabrous;

styles connate to middle, 3–4.5 mm, villous in proximal 1/2.

palatable but insipid, blue-black, glaucous, ovoid or globose, 3–9(–10) mm, yellowish or greenish stipitate-glandular.

palatable, greenish to purplish, globose, 6–7 mm, glabrous.

= 16.

= 16.