Flora of North America species comparison

erect, finely pubescent, stipitate-glandular;

spines at nodes absent;

prickles on internodes absent.

spreading to erect, finely crisped-puberulent, stipitate-glandular and with black, sessile glands;

spines at nodes absent;

prickles on internodes 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 (1–)1.7–4.5(–6) cm, finely crisped-puberulent, with colorless, stipitate and sessile glands, stipitate glands on margins of stipular expansion;

blade rectangular, 3–5-lobed, shallowly to deeply cleft, 2–6(–7.5) cm, base cordate, surfaces glabrous or sparsely pubescent, ciliate, sometimes with dark, stipitate or sessile, minute glands, especially abaxially, lobes nearly triangular, margins dentate, apex acute to broadly 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 spreading, (5–)7–25-flowered racemes, (3.5–)4.5–9.5(–12) cm, axis finely crisped-puberulent and 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.

jointed, (0.5–)1.5–6(–8.3) mm, finely crisped-puberulent and stipitate-glandular;

bracts elliptic-lanceolate, (2.8–)3–5.2(–7) mm, puberulent-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 or pinkish, cup-shaped to turbinate, (0.8–)1.2–1.5(–2.1) mm, surfaces with scattered or dense, yellow or green, stipitate glands abaxially, glabrous adaxially;

sepals not overlapping, spreading, greenish or pinkish, lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, (2–)3.3–4.1 mm;

petals widely separated, erect, cream, yellowish green, or pinkish, obovate or flabellate-cuneate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 0.9–1.5 mm;

nectary disc not seen;

stamens slightly longer than petals;

filaments linear to slightly broader at base, 0.8–1.2 mm, glabrous;

anthers cream, oval, 0.5–0.6 mm, apex with dark, small depression;

ovary glandular-pubescent with green, yellow, or colorless, short-stipitate glands;

styles nearly distinct or connate to 1/2 their lengths, 1–2 mm, glabrous.

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

palatable, black, ovoid, 3–12 mm, glandular-pubescent.

= 16.