Flora of North America species comparison

basal and cauline;

petiole absent;

blade oblong to obovate, unlobed, [5–]8–35[–50] mm, leathery-fleshy, margins finely serrate (teeth whitish), proximally ciliate, with lime-secreting hydathode (secretions obvious), apex obtuse to ± acute, surfaces glabrous.

basal and cauline, (basal usually ephemeral, gradually dying through growing season, cauline conspicuous, reduced distally);

petiole flattened, (5–)10–60(–90) mm;

blade round to reniform, 3–7(–9)-lobed usually less than halfway to midvein (distal unlobed), (3–)5–18(–20) mm, slightly fleshy, margins entire, eciliate or sometimes sparsely glandular-ciliate, apex rounded, sometimes acute, surfaces glabrous or sparsely stipitate-glandular.

2–20-flowered, narrow, distally branched thyrses or cymes, sometimes solitary flowers, 6–40 cm, purple-tipped stipitate-glandular;

bracts sessile.

2(–5)-flowered paniculate or racemelike thyrses, sometimes solitary flowers, (flowers nodding in bud), some or all flowers but terminal one on each branch often replaced by bulbils, 3–30 cm, stipitate-glandular;

bracts (proximal ephemeral), petiolate or sessile.

sepals erect, (often reddish), oblong to ovate, margins eciliate, surfaces hairy;

petals white to cream or pink, sometimes orange- or purple-spotted, elliptic to oblong or obovate, 3–6 mm, longer than sepals;

ovary 1/2+ inferior.

sepals erect, (sometimes reddish), oblong, margins glandular-ciliate, surfaces short-stipitate-glandular;

petals white, not spotted, obovate to spatulate, 5–12 mm, longer than sepals;

ovary superior.

= 28.

= 24, 36, 48, 52, 56, 60, 70, 72.