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 2–2.5 cm, puberulent;

blade roundish, irregularly 3(–5)-lobed, cleft 1/2+ to midrib, 2–5 cm, base broadly truncate, surfaces hairy, stipitate-glandular, lobes broadly cuneate, sides mostly straight or concave, margins very irregularly blunt-toothed, 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 2–3-flowered racemes, 1–1.5 cm, axis villous, stipitate-glandular, 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, 2–4 mm, villous, stipitate-glandular;

bracts lanceolate-ovate, 2–3 mm, villous, 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 green, campanulate, 2–4 mm (as wide as long), sparsely pubescent to villous;

sepals not overlapping, reflexed, green to white, narrowly oblong, abaxially shallowly concave, 6 mm;

petals separated, erect, white, oblong-truncate, somewhat inrolled, 2–3 mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens shorter than to as long as petals;

filaments linear, 2–2.5 mm, glabrous;

anthers white, narrowly oblong, 1–1.8 mm, apex blunt;

ovary densely villous with some gland-tipped bristles;

styles connate 1/2 their lengths, 4–6 mm, glabrous.

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

palatability not known, light yellow, globose, 8–10 mm, hairs nonglandular, bristles glandular, developing into spines.

= 16.