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 (0.4–)1–4 cm, finely and softly pubescent, sparsely to densely pubescent, or pilose, and glandular-puberulent or glabrous, sometimes abaxially more glandular, or glabrous;

blade roundish to reniform, 3–5(–7)-lobed, cleft 1/2 to midrib, (0.7–)1.5–4 cm, base truncate to cordate, surfaces abaxially pilose to villous, sometimes glabrate or glabrous, stipitate- and sessile-glandular, lobes oblong, oblong-cuneate, or cuneate-rounded, margins irregularly crenate-dentate into prominent, unequal teeth, apex rounded to broadly acute.

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

spreading, solitary flowers or 2–3(–4)-flowered racemes, 2–3 cm, axis glabrous or stipitate-glandular and puberulent to pilose, flowers evenly spaced.

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

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

not jointed, 1–6 mm, glabrous or villous stipitate-glandular and puberulent to pilose;

bracts broadly ovate-deltate, 1–2 mm (much shorter than leaves), finely glandular-ciliate.

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 green or greenish white to white or pinkish, narrowly tubular or campanulate to rotate, 1.4–5.5(–6.6) mm, glabrous abaxially, villous-pubescent adaxially;

sepals not overlapping, spreading to somewhat reflexed, greenish white or greenish yellow, sometimes pinkish or purplish with slightly reddish tinge, broadly to narrowly oblong-ovate or elliptic-obovate, 1–6 mm;

petals connivent, becoming separated, erect, white or pinkish, oblong-oblanceolate or obovate to oblong-obovate, flabelliform-reniform, or obovate-rhombic, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 1–3.5 mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens as long as or only slightly longer than petals;

filaments slightly expanded at base, 0.5–3.5 mm, glabrous;

anthers cream, oblong-oval, 0.6–1.3 mm, apex rounded;

ovary glabrous;

styles connate 1/3–3/4 their lengths, 2.5–8(–9) mm, pilose in proximal 1/2.

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

palatable, reddish, greenish purple, or deep purplish black, globose, 7–16 mm, glabrous.