Flora of North America species comparison

usually single, erect and sometimes supported by adjacent plants (sprawling), base prostrate or decumbent-ascending to erect, often rooting, solid, not brittle, sometimes ± glaucous distally, proximally stellate-hairy, glabrate, hairs minute or larger and coarse (never simple only), usually 4-rayed, 0.5–1 mm.

decumbent-ascending to erect, sometimes proximally prostrate, rooting, not brittle, densely, harshly stellate-puberulent to glabrate, hairs 0.1–0.5(–0.7) mm, usually less dense distally.

basal and/or cauline, similar in size and shape;

stipules linear to lanceolate, 2–3 × 1.1 mm;

petiole (1–)5–10(–15) cm, longest on proximal leaves, 1–4 times longer on proximal leaves to 1/2 times to as long as blade on distal leaves;

blade usually shallowly to deeply palmately 3–7-lobed usually halfway to base, proximal and distal cauline blades rounded to reniform, 2–3 × 2–5 cm, usually wider than long, base cordate to truncate, margins crenate, apex blunt or rounded, lobes narrowest at base, margins usually apically coarsely toothed, rarely entire, surfaces stellate-puberulent.

mostly basal, cauline 1–3+, gradually reduced distally;

petioles of proximal leaves 5–10 cm, 1–4 times as long as blade, those of distal leaves 1/2 times to as long as blade;

blades: basal usually palmately 7-lobed, or deeply crenate, 2.2–2.7(–4) × 2–2.3(–4) cm, base cordate or sinus wide to narrow, apex rounded, cauline deeply 3–7-lobed, 1.5–3 cm, lobes usually apically 3-toothed or distalmost entire, surfaces hairy, more densely stellate-puberulent adaxially, hairs usually 2–4-rayed (simple), bristly.

ascending or erect, often spiciform, open, calyces not overlapping in flower or fruit, unbranched or branched, 2–15(–30)-flowered, elongate in both flower and fruit, usually 1-sided, 6–11(–30) cm;

bracts leaflike to linear, usually 2-fid, (2–)3–5(–15) mm.

ascending, usually unbranched, subscapose, usually 1-sided, pistillate usually 9–14-flowered, bisexual 2–9(–19)-flowered;

bracts linear to lanceolate, stipulelike, 2–2.5(–4) mm, shorter than to as long as pedicel.

2–5(–10) mm;

involucellar bractlets absent.

3–4 mm.

bisexual or unisexual and pistillate, plants gynodioecious;

calyx 5–12 mm, uniformly densely stellate-puberulent;

petals pink to pale purple, pale-veined, (5–)10–28 mm, pistillate flowers darker, 5–15 mm;

staminal column 4–5 mm, stellate-puberulent;

anthers white;

stigmas (6 or)7 or 8.

calyx 5–7(–12) mm;

petals pink, pistillate 9–11 mm, bisexual 15–20(–28) mm;

stigmas 7 or 8.

1.5–2.8 mm.

2.8 mm.

6–8 mm diam.;

mericarps (6 or)7 or 8, 3–4 mm, usually glandular-puberulent to stellate-puberulent, sometimes glabrous, roughened, strongly reticulate-veined, sides and back pitted, mucro 0.5–1 mm.

7–8 mm diam.;

mericarps 7 or 8, 4 mm, reticulate-rugose-veined, sides and back pitted, mucro 1 mm, with few minute bristles.