Flora of North America species comparison

erect, finely pubescent, stipitate-glandular;

spines at nodes absent;

prickles on internodes absent.

erect or spreading, finely pubescent, not bristly;

spines at nodes usually 3, 7–12 mm;

prickles on internodes absent or sparse.

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 1–4 cm, glandular-pubescent;

blade round-ovate, 3–5-lobed, cleft less than 1/2 to midrib, 1.5–2.5 cm, base shallowly cordate, surfaces paler and usually pubescent and glandular abaxially, sparsely pubescent adaxially, lobes rounded, shallowly cleft, margins crenate-dentate, apex 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-flowered racemes, 4–6 cm, axis stipitate-glandular.

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

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

not jointed, 3–4 mm, densely stipitate-glandular;

bracts broadly ovate, 2–3 mm, stipitate-glandular.

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 with strong reddish tinge abaxially, narrowly campanulate, 3.5–5.5 mm, sparsely pilose;

sepals not overlapping, reflexed, bright red, narrowly oblong, 10–13 mm;

petals connivent, erect, white or pinkish, broadly flabelliform but usually inrolled on edges, 4–5(–7) mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens 2 times as long as petals;

filaments linear, 8–14 mm, glabrous;

anthers purple or red, oval, 1.2–2 mm, apex rounded;

ovary glandular;

styles connate 2/5–3/5 their lengths, 8–14 mm, glabrous.

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

palatable, reddish brown, globose-ellipsoid, 10–15(–20) mm, coarsely setose-glandular, not prickly.

= 16.