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 ca. 0.5 cm, tomentose;

blade roundish, shallowly 3(–5)-lobed, cleft nearly 1/4 to midrib, 1–3 cm, base truncate, surfaces glabrous, glabrate, or hairy, not glandular, lobes broadly oblong, sides parallel, margins with 2–4 blunt teeth, apex rounded.

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

ascending, solitary flowers or 2–3-flowered racemes, 1.5–4 cm, axis glabrous or with few stipitate glands, flowers evenly spaced.

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

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

not jointed, 6–8 mm, pubescent, sparsely stipitate-glandular;

bracts broadly ovate, 3–5 mm, glabrous or sparsely hairy.

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 greenish, broadly tubular, 2 mm, glabrous or puberulent;

sepals not overlapping, reflexed, dark red or green tinged with dark red, deltate-ovate, 6–8 mm;

petals connivent, erect, white, oblong, inrolled, 2–4 mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens 0.9–4 times as long as petals, sometimes slightly shorter or longer than petals;

filaments linear, 6–8 mm, glabrous;

anthers greenish yellow, lanceolate, somewhat sagittate, 1.8–2 mm, apex apiculate;

ovary with longer, glandless bristles among gland-tipped hairs;

styles connate nearly to middle, 8–10 mm, glabrous.

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

palatable, red, globose, 9–10 mm, bristles stiff, glandular and eglandular.