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 1–4 cm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular;

blade roundish, 3(–5)-lobed, cleft nearly 1/4 to midrib, 3–8 cm, base deeply cordate, surfaces with colorless, sessile or stipitate glands, pubescent abaxially, glabrous adaxially, lobes deltate, margins bluntly toothed, apex obtuse.

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

erect to pendent, 8–20-flowered racemes, 5–8 cm, axis stipitate-glandular, flowers crowded into distal 1/4–1/3.

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

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

jointed, 3–5 mm, stipitate-glandular;

bracts oblanceolate, 4–8 mm, glandular-ciliate.

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 bright pink to deep rose-red, turbinate, 2–2.5 mm, stipitate-glandular;

sepals not to somewhat overlapping, erect, arching inward, bright pink to deep rose-red, obovate, 4–5 mm;

petals nearly connivent, erect, arching inward, white, obovate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 2–3 mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens as long as or slightly longer than petals;

filaments linear, 1.9–2.5 mm, glabrous;

anthers cream, ovate, 0.5 mm, apex blunt;

ovary stipitate-glandular;

styles connate nearly to stigmas, 4 mm, glabrous.

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

palatable, blue-black, globose, 6–8 mm, stipitate-glandular.

= 16.