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.

petiole 3–5 cm, crisped-tomentose, stipitate-glandular;

blade angular-orbiculate, 3–5-lobed, cleft 1/3–2/3 to midrib, 2.5–5 cm, base deeply cordate, surfaces pubescent, with sessile to short-stipitate glands, lobes cuneate-rounded, margins crenate and finely dentate-serrate, apex obtuse.

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

erect to ascending, 6–20-flowered racemes, 2–5 cm, axis puberulent and stipitate-glandular, flowers evenly spaced.

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

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

jointed, 1.2–3 mm, puberulent, stipitate-glandular;

bracts lanceolate to obovate, 2–4 mm, crisped-puberulent, stipitate-glandular.

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.

hypanthium yellowish orange, broadly saucer-shaped, ca. 1 mm, puberulent, stipitate-glandular;

sepals not overlapping, spreading, yellow- or salmon-tinged, oblong-rounded, 1.5–3 mm;

petals widely separated, erect, yellow- or salmon-tinged, broadly spatulate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 1–1.2 mm;

nectary disc prominent, orangish, raised, angled, covering most of ovary;

stamens as long as petals;

filaments linear, 0.5 mm, glabrous;

anthers yellow, orbiculate, 0.5 mm, apex shallowly notched;

ovary stipitate-glandular;

styles connate 1/2 their lengths, 1 mm, glabrous.

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

palatability not known, red, ovoid, 8–10 mm, stipitate-glandular.