Flora of North America species comparison

biennial, initially low-arching, then falling and creeping (or climbing through other vegetation), glabrous or moderately hairy, sparsely to densely short- to long-stipitate-glandular, not pruinose;

prickles moderate to dense, recurved, sometimes distally slender, 1–4 mm, broad-based;

bristles absent or sparse to dense, erect to retrorse, red to purple, rarely green, slender, weak, gland-tipped.

biennial, low-mounding to creeping, sparsely to moderately hairy, glabrescent, eglandular, not pruinose;

prickles sparse to moderate, slightly to strongly hooked, weak to stout, 0.8–1.5(–2) mm, broad-based.

persistent or semipersistent, ternate to palmately compound, lustrous;

stipules filiform, linear, or lanceolate, 2–12(–15) mm;

leaflets 3–5, terminal narrowly elliptic or ovate to obovate, 2–8.5 × 0.7–4.5 cm, base rounded to cuneate, unlobed, margins moderately to coarsely serrate to doubly serrate, apex acute to acuminate, abaxial surfaces with hooked prickles on midvein, glabrous or sparsely to moderately hairy, eglandular or sparsely short-stipitate-glandular along central vein.

deciduous, ternate or pinnately compound;

stipules filiform to linear, (4–)6–11 mm;

leaflets 3(–5), terminal broadly ovate-rhombic to obovate, (2–)3–5(–9) × 2.2–5(–7.5) cm, base cuneate to obtuse, slightly 3-lobed, margins coarsely serrate to doubly serrate, apex acute to obtuse, abaxial surfaces with slightly to strongly hooked prickles on veins, densely whitish-tomentose, eglandular or sparsely short-stipitate-glandular.

terminal on short shoots, usually appearing axillary, 1(–3)-flowered.

terminal and axillary, 2–20-flowered, cymiform to thyrsiform.

prickles and, often, bristles moderate to dense, recurved, moderately to densely hairy, sparsely to moderately sessile- to short-stipitate-glandular.

prickles moderate, slightly to strongly hooked, moderately hairy, eglandular or sparsely short-stipitate-glandular.

bisexual;

petals white to pink, elliptic to obovate, 10–16(–25) mm;

filaments filiform;

ovaries glabrous.

bisexual;

petals pinkish to magenta, oblanceolate to obovate, 4–7 mm;

filaments filiform;

ovaries moderately to densely hairy, styles glabrous.

black, globose to ovoid, 1–1.5(–2) cm;

drupelets 10–50, strongly coherent, separating with torus attached.

red, round, 0.6–0.9 cm;

drupelets 10–50, strongly coherent, separating from torus.

= 14.

= 14.