Flora of North America species comparison

erect, finely pubescent, stipitate-glandular;

spines at nodes absent;

prickles on internodes absent.

erect, densely white soft-pubescent;

spines at nodes absent or 1–3, 4–8 mm;

prickles on internodes scattered, glandular and eglandular.

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 1–2 cm, copiously white-pilose;

blade oblong to roundish, shallowly 5-lobed, cleft 1/4–1/3 to midrib, 2–3 cm, base truncate, surfaces soft-pubescent abaxially, subglabrous adaxially, lobes rounded, margins coarsely crenate-dentate, apex rounded to 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-flowered racemes, 2–4 cm, axis white-pilose.

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

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

not jointed, 6–8 mm, pilose;

bracts broadly lanceolate, 2–3 mm, white-pilose.

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 pinkish, narrowly tubular, 4–5 mm (1/2 as long as sepals), white-pilose, not glandular;

sepals not overlapping, erect, pinkish, lanceolate, 9–10 mm;

petals connivent, erect, white, oblong, inrolled, 4–6 mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens 1.3 times as long as petals;

filaments linear, 4–6 mm, glabrous;

anthers white, lanceolate, somewhat sagittate, 3 mm, apex apiculate;

ovary pilose, not glandular;

styles connate nearly 3/4 their lengths, 9–11 mm, glabrous.

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

palatability not known, purple, subglobose, 7 mm, pilose-hairy with nonglandular spines.

= 16.