Flora of North America species comparison

erect, stellate-tomentose.

erect, stellate-puberulent.

stipules free from petiole, 1-veined, linear, 5–8 mm, shorter than petiole;

petiole 10–25 mm, to 1/2 length of blade, stellate-tomentose;

blade broadly cordate to ovate-lanceolate, to 6 cm, reduced distally, 1–2 times longer than wide, base cordate, margins dentate to base, apex acute, surfaces softly velvety-tomentose.

stipules free from petiole, 1-veined, linear to falcate, 5–7 mm, 1/2–1 times length of petiole;

petiole 2–10 mm, to 1/4 length of blade, obscurely puberulent;

blade narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 2–4.5 cm, 6–15 times longer than wide, base truncate, margins dentate to base, apex acute, surfaces sparsely hairy abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

axillary, usually subsessile, crowded panicles or corymbs, sometimes solitary flowers.

axillary, solitary flowers, usually congested apically.

0.2–0.4 cm, enlarging slightly in fruit, shorter than calyx.

usually to 1 cm, subequal to calyx, much shorter than subtending leaf.

calyx prominently ribbed, 6–7 mm, densely stellate-tomentose, lobes ovate;

petals yellow-orange, often with darker reddish base, 8–11 mm;

staminal column hairy;

style 8–14-branched.

calyx ribbed, 6–7 mm, minutely hairy, lobes triangular;

petals yellow-orange to reddish, sometimes drying lavender, 10–12 mm;

style 10–12-branched.

oblate-conic, 6–7 mm diam., apically hairy;

mericarps 8–14, 4–5 mm, dorsally smooth, apex spined, spines to 2 mm, retrorsely barbed (variably developed, rarely suppressed).

oblate, 6–7 mm diam., apically puberulent;

mericarps 10–12, 3 mm, obscurely reticulate laterally, apex muticous.

= 28.

= ca. 14.