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 (basal ephemeral);

petiole flattened, 5–15 mm;

blade reniform, 5–7-lobed usually more than halfway to midvein (cauline less-lobed distally), 5–20 mm, thin to slightly fleshy, margins entire, eciliate, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces glabrous or glabrate to ± long-hairy.

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

bracts sessile.

2–5-flowered cymes, 5–18 cm, purple-tipped stipitate-glandular;

bracts petiolate.

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.

sepals erect, (sometimes purplish), ovate to lanceolate, margins glandular-ciliate or eciliate, surfaces glabrous;

petals white, sometimes with purple veins, not spotted, obovate to narrowly oblanceolate, 7–15 mm, longer than sepals;

ovary 1/4–1/3 inferior.

= 26.

= 26, 48, 52.