Flora of North America species comparison

emersed;

petiole triangular, erect to ascending, 6.5–51 cm;

blade sagittate, rarely hastate, 1.5–30.5 × 2–17 cm, basal lobes equal to or less than remainder of blade.

emersed, sessile, phyllodial, lenticular, or with petiole triangular, to 53 cm, blade lance-elliptic, 11–18 × 1.5–4.5 cm.

racemes, rarely panicles, of 3–9 whorls, emersed, 4.5–28.5 × 4–23 cm;

peduncles 10–59 cm;

bracts connate more than or equal to ¼ total length, elliptic to lanceolate, 3–8 mm, delicate, not papillose; fruiting pedicels spreading, cylindric, 0.5–3.5 cm.

racemes, of 3–9 whorls, emersed, 2–13.5 × 3–6 cm;

peduncles to 75 cm;

bracts connate more than ¼ total length, lanceolate, 5–8 mm, delicate, not papillose; fruiting pedicels recurved, cylindric, 0.5–2.5 cm.

to 4 cm diam.;

sepals recurved to spreading, not enclosing flower or fruiting head;

filaments cylindric, longer than anthers, glabrous;

pistillate pedicellate, without ring of sterile stamens.

to 3.5 cm diam.;

sepals spreading in staminate, erect in pistillate, enclosing flower or fruiting head;

filaments club-shaped, longer than anthers, pubescent;

pistillate pedicellate, without ring of sterile stamens.

unknown.

heads 1–1.7 cm diam;

achenes oblanceoloid, without abaxial keel, 2.5–3.5 × to 2 mm, beaked;

faces not tuberculate, wings absent, glands (0–)1(–2);

beak lateral, horizontal, 1–2 mm.

heads 0.7–1.2 cm diam.;

achenes oblanceoloid, abaxially keeled, 2–3 × 1.4–2.1 mm, beaked;

faces not tuberculate, wings absent, glands 0–1;

beak lateral, erect, 0.2–0.6 mm.

= 22.