Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent to erect, glabrous or sparsely short-hairy, eglandular or sparsely stipitate-glandular, not pruinose.

biennial, ascending, often arching, glabrous or sparsely puberulent, eglandular or sparsely to densely short-stipitate-glandular, strongly pruinose;

prickles moderate to dense, erect or curved, slender to stout, 4–8 mm, usually broad-based, sometimes narrow-based.

deciduous, simple;

stipules lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 5–8(–14) mm;

blade orbiculate to reniform, (1.5–)2–4(–5) × (2.5–)3–4.5(–7) cm, base shallowly cordate, 3–5(–7)-lobed, lobe apices broadly rounded to obtuse, margins doubly dentate, abaxial surfaces sparsely hairy, mostly along veins, sparsely stipitate-glandular.

deciduous, palmately compound or ternate;

stipules filiform, 5–10 mm;

petiole with hooked or erect prickles, glabrous, eglandular or sparsely to densely sessile- to short-stipitate-glandular;

lateral leaflets stalked, at least 2 larger ones, often with prickles, glabrous, eglandular or stipitate-glandular;

leaflets 3–5(–7), terminal ovate to lanceolate, 6–10 × 3–6 cm, base cordate to truncate, unlobed or shallowly 3-lobed, margins serrate to doubly serrate, apex acuminate, abaxial surface sometimes with prickles on midrib and some lateral veins, glabrous to strongly white-tomentose, usually eglandular.

1-flowered.

axillary and terminal, (1–)3–10(–12)-flowered, flat-topped cymiform or umbelliform.

pubescent, sparsely to densely short- to long-stipitate-glandular.

prickles sparse to dense, hooked or erect, puberulent, eglandular or sparsely to densely sessile- or short-stipitate-glandular.

bisexual;

petals white, obovate to ovate, 15–25(–30) mm;

filaments filiform;

ovaries glabrous, styles clavate, villous.

bisexual;

petals erect, then ascending, white, oblong to oblanceolate, 3–6(–8) mm;

filaments laminar;

ovaries pubescent, rarely glabrous.

dark purple, hemispheric, to 1 cm;

drupelets 10–40, coherent, separating from torus.

reddish purple to nearly black, depressed globose to conic, 1–2 cm;

drupelets 20–60, coherent, separating from torus.

= 14, 21.

= 14.