Flora of North America species comparison

petiole 1.5–5 cm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular;

blade round-ovate, 3–5-lobed, cleft 1/4–1/3 to midrib, 1.5–5 cm, base truncate to cordate, surfaces finely pubescent, stipitate-glandular, lobes rounded, margins with few shallow teeth, apex rounded.

petiole (0.4–)1–3(–4.8) cm, margins of young leaves often with slender extensions like multicelled hairs, surfaces finely pubescent, glabrescent;

blade broadly deltate-ovate to obovate, 3(–5)-lobed, cleft less than to slightly more than 1/2 to midrib (sometimes proximal leaves again shallowly lobed), (1–)1.6–3.6(–5.7) cm, base broadly cuneate to somewhat cordate, surfaces sometimes with colorless or yellowish, nearly sessile glands, finely pubescent or glabrous, glabrescent, lobes oblong-rounded, margins entire or with 2–5 rounded teeth, apex acute to obtuse.

pendent, solitary flowers or 2-flowered racemes, 3–4 cm, axis pilose, stipitate-glandular.

ascending to reflexed, 5–18-flowered racemes, 3–7 cm, axis glabrous, finely pubescent, or densely villous, flowers evenly spaced.

not jointed, 3–4 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular;

bracts lanceolate-ovate, 2–3 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular.

jointed, 2–8 mm, glabrous or densely villous;

bracts broadly deltate to obovate (similar to leaves), 4–9 mm, glabrous or densely villous.

hypanthium greenish white, conic, as wide as long, 3 mm (1/4–1/3 as long as sepals), stipitate-glandular;

sepals not overlapping, reflexed, white, pink-tinged at base, oblong-lanceolate, 6–11 mm;

petals connivent, erect, white, oblong, inrolled, 3–5 mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens 2 times as long as petals;

filaments linear, ca. 6 mm, glabrous;

anthers cream, lanceolate-sagittate, 3 mm, apex mucronate;

ovary densely glandular, with longer glandless bristles;

styles connate to middle, 9–11 mm, glabrous.

hypanthium yellow to yellowish green, narrowly tubular, 6–20 mm, glabrous;

sepals not overlapping, spreading, usually not reflexed, golden yellow, oblong-elliptic, 3–8 mm;

petals connivent, erect, yellow to orange or deep red, oblong-obovate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 2–3(–4) mm;

nectary disc not conspicuous;

stamens nearly as long as petals;

filaments slightly expanded at base, 0.9–1.5(–2.2) mm, glabrous;

anthers white, oblong, 1.1–2 mm, apex minutely apiculate;

ovary glabrous;

styles connate almost to stigmas, (8.5–)9.8–12.5 mm, glabrous.

palatability not known, golden yellow, globose, 8–10 mm, glandular-bristly.

palatable, usually red, orange, brown, or black, rarely yellow, globose, 5.2–10 mm, glabrous.

= 16.