Flora of North America species comparison

erect, sparsely to moderately hairy, moderately to densely stipitate-glandular, glands dark purple, not pruinose.

biennial, arching, usually densely, sometimes moderately, hairy, usually eglandular, sometimes sessile- to short-stipitate-glandular, not pruinose;

prickles moderate to dense, recurved to erect, slender, 3–10 mm, broad-based.

deciduous, simple;

stipules lanceolate to ovate, 5–15 mm;

blade subrotund to reniform, 9–20(–30) × (10–)15–25(–30) cm, base cordate, palmately, ± deeply, (3–)5-lobed, margins finely, irregularly serrate to doubly serrate, apex acute to acuminate, abaxial surfaces sparsely to moderately hairy, sparsely to densely stipitate-glandular, glands dark purple.

deciduous or ± persistent, palmately compound;

stipules filiform to linear, 5–15 mm;

leaflets 3–5, terminal usually suborbiculate to orbiculate, sometimes broadly elliptic, 4–9 × 4–8 cm, base rounded to shallowly cordate, unlobed, margins moderately to coarsely serrate, apex acute to cuspidate, abaxial surfaces with hooked prickles on midvein, densely white-gray to gray-green tomentose, eglandular or obscurely short-stipitate- to sessile-glandular along midveins.

terminal and axillary, 4–7(–22)-flowered, cymiform to thyrsiform.

terminal, 7–35-flowered, cymiform or thyrsiform.

pubescent, moderately to densely stipitate-glandular, glands dark purple.

prickles moderate to dense, recurved to erect, densely hairy, moderately to densely stipitate-glandular.

bisexual;

petals usually magenta, rarely white, broadly obovate to suborbiculate, (12–)17–25(–30) mm;

filaments filiform;

ovaries distally densely hairy, styles clavate, glabrous.

bisexual;

petals pink to magenta, elliptic to suborbiculate, 6–12(–15) mm;

filaments filiform;

ovaries apically hairy.

pale to dark red, hemispheric, 0.7–1.5 cm;

drupelets 30–60, coherent, separating from torus.

black, globose, 1–1.5 cm;

drupelets 15–40, coherent, separating with torus attached.

= 14.

= 28.