Flora of North America species comparison

cauline (crowded proximally);

petiole absent;

blade spatulate, unlobed or minutely 3-toothed or -lobed apically, 4–11 mm, leathery, margins entire, (not cartilaginous), stiffly ciliate, apex rounded or obtuse, mucronate, surfaces glabrous.

basal and cauline;

petiole ± flattened, 10–70 mm, (± hairy);

blade reniform, 5–7(–11)-lobed (lobes obtuse, sometimes acute), (5–)7.4–11.2(–20) mm, slightly fleshy, margins entire, sparsely glandular-ciliate or eciliate, apex rounded to obtuse, surfaces glabrous or sparsely short stipitate-glandular.

3–6-flowered cymes, 2.5–12 cm, pink- to purple-tipped stipitate-glandular;

bracts sessile.

2–6(–29)-flowered, capitate thyrses, sometimes solitary flowers, (flowers subsessile), (3–)5–15(–18) cm, densely tangled, reddish brown-hairy;

bracts (5–10), petiolate, (3–7-lobed, densely surrounding inflorescence).

sepals erect, ovate to oblong, margins sparsely ciliate, surfaces glabrous;

petals white to cream, yellow-spotted proximally, red- or orange-spotted distally, these often faded in dried specimens, elliptic, 4–6 mm, much longer than sepals;

ovary superior.

(hypanthium U-shaped in longisection);

sepals erect, oblong to ovate, margins ± glandular-ciliate, surfaces glabrous or sparsely short stipitate-glandular;

petals white, not spotted, ± broadly elliptic to obovate, 2–5(–6.5) mm, ± equaling sepals;

ovary ca. 1/2 inferior.

= 26.

= 26 (Russian Far East).