Flora of North America species comparison

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

usually several, clustered, erect, usually purplish tinted especially near base, mostly unbranched, sometimes proximally hollow, base glabrous or sparsely hairy, hairs minute, simple or stellate, more densely scabrous 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.

basal and cauline, ± fleshy;

stipules deciduous, often purplish, lanceolate to linear, 6–11 × 1–3 mm;

petiole often purplish tinted, those of basal leaves to 30 cm, proximalmost 3 times as long as blades, mid cauline 1–2 times as long as blades, distalmost to 1/2 times as long as blades and leaves subsessile;

basal blades orbiculate, unlobed or shallowly 5-lobed, 7–15 × 7–15 cm, margins crenate or dentate, ciliate, surfaces glabrous or sparsely hirsute, hairs sometimes forked, not stellate, mid cauline palmately 7–9-lobed, incised 1/2+ length, 7–12(–17) × 7–12(–17) cm, lobes cuneate, margins coarsely dentate to pinnatifid, apex toothed, surfaces: adaxial sparsely hairy or only on veins, ciliate, distal cauline leaves 3–5-parted nearly to base, lobes narrowly lanceolate to linear, margins coarsely dentate-laciniate.

erect, spiciform, dense, especially when young, sometimes elongate, calyces usually conspicuously overlapping in flower and sometimes in fruit, usually branched, 20-flowered, usually several to many open at same time, not 1-sided, 5–20 cm;

bracts purplish, lanceolate to linear, undivided, rarely 2-fid, 4–5 mm, longer than pedicels, shorter than calyx.

1–4 mm, to 7–8 mm in fruit;

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 or often unisexual and pistillate, plants gynodioecious;

calyx somewhat urceolate, 8–9 mm, to 10–12 mm in fruit, lobes strongly reticulate-veined, sparsely stellate-hairy or proximally glabrous, lobe tips usually purple, rarely green, margins ciliate;

petals bright pinkish lavender, drying deep purple, veins not paler, bases not white, pistillate usually 8–10 mm, bisexual (10–)15–20 mm;

staminal column 6–7 mm, hairy;

anthers white;

stigmas (5–)7 or 8(or 9).

1.5–2 mm.

3 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.

8–9 mm diam.;

mericarps (5–)7 or 8(or 9), 4 mm, smooth, glabrous (rarely sparsely glandular-puberulent), thin-walled, apical margins sharp-edged, not winged, back sometimes slightly wrinkled, mucro 0.8–1.3 mm.

= 20.