Flora of North America species comparison

perennial, creeping, sparsely hairy, glabrescent, eglandular, not pruinose;

prickles sparse, strongly retrorse, stout, to 1 mm, broad-based.

creeping, moderately appressed-hairy, eglandular or sparsely to moderately stipitate-glandular, not pruinose.

evergreen, simple or ternate;

stipules adnate to petioles, broadly elliptic to ovate, (6–)8–10 mm;

blade ovate to cordate, (2.5–)3–5(–8) cm, lobe or leaflet base cordate, shallowly 3-lobed, margins coarsely, singly or doubly dentate, apex acute to obtuse, abaxial surfaces with prickles along midveins, glabrous or sparsely hairy, eglandular, both surfaces lustrous fresh.

deciduous, simple;

stipules lanceolate-laciniate, (2–)3–5(–8) mm;

blade ovate-orbiculate, 1.5–2.7(–3) × 1.5–3.5(–4) cm, base deeply cordate, unlobed, margins crenate to broadly dentate, apex rounded, abaxial surfaces sparsely to moderately hairy, sparsely to moderately short-stipitate-glandular.

1–2-flowered.

1-flowered.

prickles scattered, retrorse, moderately to densely hairy, eglandular.

moderately and retrorsely long-hairy, eglandular.

bisexual;

petals magenta to pink, elliptic to oblanceolate or spatulate, (5–)8–10 mm;

filaments filiform;

ovaries moderately hairy, styles glabrous.

bisexual;

petals absent in fertile flowers, present in sterile flowers, white, narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 5–8 mm;

filaments filiform;

ovaries densely hairy, styles glabrous.

red, hemispheric, 0.4–1 cm;

drupelets 3–10, not coherent, separating from torus.

whitish, 0.3–0.5 cm, dry;

drupelets 5–10(–15), not coherent, separating from torus, enclosed by converging sepals.

= 14.

= 14.