Flora of North America species comparison

single, erect, unbranched or distally branched, often zigzag, solid, proximally usually glabrous or sparsely stellate-puberulent.

several, clustered, erect, solid, often glaucous proximally, base sparsely, finely to coarsely stellate-hairy or hispid, hairs smaller distally.

cauline;

stipules deciduous or inconspicuous, sometimes purplish, subulate, 1–1.5(–3) × 0.5–1 mm;

petiole 0.5–1.5(–3) cm, usually 1/2 times involucellar bractlets absent.

2–5 per stem, mostly basal;

stipules linear-lanceolate, 3–6 × 1 mm;

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

blade fleshy, glaucous, rather densely stellate-hairy, proximalmost usually shallowly to deeply, ternately, palmately 5–7-lobed, 1.5–3 × 1.5–4 cm, lobes obovate, margins crenate-dentate, distal deeply 3–7-lobed, lobes linear, distalmost 2–4 cm wide.

erect, open, calyces not conspicuously overlapping except sometimes in bud, branched or unbranched, nearly scapose, often 20+-flowered, slender, elongate, 1-sided or not, 6–30 cm;

bracts inconspicuous, linear, 2-fid, 2–4 mm, shorter than calyx and pedicels.

2–8(–10) mm;

involucellar bractlets absent.

bisexual or unisexual and pistillate, plants gynodioecious;

calyx 8–10(–12) mm, not much enlarging in fruit, stellate-canescent, sparsely ciliate;

petals pink to rose-purple or white, pale-veined, often whitened at base, 18–20(–25) mm;

stamens: outer filaments incompletely connate, distally distinct, anthers not attached to connate portion of filaments;

staminal column 6–7 mm, hairy;

anthers white, stalked, aborted in pistillate flowers;

stigmas 6 or 7.

bisexual;

calyx 5–8 mm, uniformly, densely stellate-puberulent or few with longer rays;

petals pale pink-lavender, veins paler, 10–15 mm;

staminal column 4–5 mm, hairy;

anthers white;

stigmas 5 or 6.

1.5–2 mm.

1 mm.

5–7 mm diam.;

mericarps 6 or 7, 2.5–4 mm, sides smooth, margins rugose, back reticulate-veined, deeply pitted especially on top, glabrous or glandular-puberulent, mucro 0.5–0.8(–1) mm.

5 mm diam.;

mericarps 5 or 6, 2.5 mm, sparsely glandular-puberulent, roughened, back reticulate-veined, sides strongly so, not pitted, mucro 0.1–0.3 mm.

= 20.