Flora of North America species comparison

petiole 0.2–1.5(–3.3) cm, pilose and glandular or stipitate-glandular;

blade nearly orbiculate to cordate or reniform, 3–5-lobed, cleft 1/3–1/2(–3/4) to midrib, 0.5–2 cm, base broadly truncate to cordate, surfaces glabrous or finely pubescent and slightly glandular-puberulent, lobes cuneate, margins entire or 2–3-toothed, apex rounded.

spreading, solitary flowers or 2(–3)-flowered racemes, 0.5–1 cm (much shorter than leaves), axis pubescent, flowers evenly spaced.

not jointed, 1–3(–4) mm, glabrous, pubescent, or glandular-pubescent;

bracts lanceolate-ovate, 1–2 mm, pubescent.

hypanthium whitish or yellowish, sometimes pink tinged, tubular to slightly campanulate, 1–2.5(–2.8) mm, glabrous, pubescent, or stipitate-glandular and pubescent abaxially, glabrous adaxially, becoming indurate;

sepals not overlapping, spreading to nearly erect, yellow to pinkish, oblong, 1–2 mm;

petals nearly connivent, erect, white or yellowish, elliptic-oblanceolate or oblong-obovate to spatulate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 1.5–2.5 mm;

nectary disc greenish or cream, raised, roundish, covering much of ovary;

stamens nearly as long as petals;

filaments linear, 0.6–1.1 mm, glabrous;

anthers pale yellow to light violet, oval, 0.5–1.2 mm, apex blunt or with punctate notch;

ovary usually densely crisped-puberulent and stipitate-glandular, rarely glabrous;

styles completely connate, 3 mm, glabrous or finely pubescent.

palatable, yellow, becoming purple or dark reddish, globose, 4–9.5 mm, glabrous, sparsely to densely pubescent, or sparsely to densely stipitate-glandular pubescent.