Flora of North America species comparison

erect, finely pubescent, stipitate-glandular;

spines at nodes absent;

prickles on internodes absent.

erect to sprawling, glabrous or sparsely retrorse-bristly when young and with black, sessile glands;

spines at nodes sometimes absent or 1(–3), 1–8(–12) mm;

prickles on internodes usually absent.

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 (0.4–)1–5.5 cm, tomentose to pilose, with few longer, slender, stipitate-glandular hairs;

blade broadly ovate or pentagonal, 3–5-lobed, cleft nearly 1/2 to midrib, sometimes lateral lobes again less deeply cut into larger distal and smaller proximal segments, 1.5–8 cm, base rounded to broadly cordate, surfaces glabrous, sparsely pubescent, or pilose-villous, usually ciliate, lobes acutish or oblong-rounded, margins deeply crenate-serrate or coarsely round-toothed, apex acute or rounded.

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 2–5-flowered racemes, 1.5–3.5 cm, axis glabrous, flowers evenly spaced.

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

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

not jointed, (1.5–)2.3–5.5(–8) mm, glabrous;

bracts ovate, 1–3 mm, glandular-ciliolate.

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 green or greenish white, narrowly tubular to tubular-campanulate, 1.5–3.5 mm, glabrous or densely pilose to arachnoid-pubescent adaxially;

sepals not overlapping, spreading to curved-reflexed (extended in fruit), white or greenish to purplish or reddish margined or tinged, oblong or oblong-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 2.5–5 mm;

petals connivent, erect, whitish or pinkish, broadly cuneate-obovate or cuneate-flabellate to cuneate or oblong, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 1–2.3 mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens nearly 2 times as long as petals;

filaments linear, 1.8–3.1 mm, mostly glabrous;

anthers cream, ovate, 0.6–1.1 mm, apex with cup-shaped gland;

ovary glabrous;

styles connate 1/3–3/4 their lengths, 4.5–7 mm, proximally pilose-villous to middle or throughout.

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

palatable, greenish or reddish purple to gray-black, nearly globose or globose, 7–11 mm, glabrous.

= 16.

= 16.