Flora of North America species comparison

usually scattered, ascending to erect, solid, sometimes glaucous, proximally usually long bristly-hirsute, hairs simple or few stellate, rarely glabrous, distally stellate-hairy.

several to many (ca. 3–20+), clustered, erect to ascending, branched or unbranched, solid, usually densely stellate-canescent.

mostly cauline (on reproductive stems), basal present mostly when stems young;

stipules lanceolate to ovate, (3–)4–5 × 0.8–3 mm;

proximal petioles 7–12 cm, 3–4 times blade length, distal usually 1/2–1 times blade length;

blade often grayish green, reniform or reniform-orbiculate, 2.5–6 × 2.5–6 cm, base wide-cordate, margins ciliate, apex rounded overall (lobes can be acute), surfaces softly stellate-hairy to silky villous-hirsute;

basal shallowly, palmately 5-lobed, lobe not 1-sided, 3–8 cm, elongating in fruit;

bracts linear, unlobed or infrequently 2-fid, 2–5 mm, subequal to or longer than pedicels, much shorter than calyx.

cauline, evenly arrayed on stem, usually similar in size, shape;

stipules linear-lanceolate to ovate, 2–9 × 1–3 mm, widest above base, width sometimes exceeding stem diam.;

petiole 0.6–3(–9) cm, 1/2–3 times as long as blade, apex often with pulvinus;

blade orbiculate or reniform to flabelliform, unlobed and margins coarsely crenate to shallowly or deeply lobed, 1–7 × 1–7 cm, usually wider than long, base truncate or cordate, apex rounded, surfaces stellate-hairy.

erect, infrequently ascending, usually spiciform, dense or open, calyces overlapping or not, branched or unbranched, 2–20+-flowered, proximal flowers scattered, usually more congested distally, not notably elongate in flower, not 1-sided, (1.5–)3–25 cm, usually longer in fruit;

bracts linear to ovate-lanceolate or oblong, undivided, 2-fid, or divided, 2–8(–12) mm, not involucrelike, distal entire to 2-fid, stipulelike, proximalmost not involucrelike, divided to base, much shorter than to nearly equaling calyx.

1–3(–5) mm;

involucellar bractlets absent.

1–4(–5) mm;

involucellar bractlets (2 or)3, 2–10 mm, shorter to slightly longer than calyx.

bisexual or unisexual and pistillate, plants gynodioecious;

calyx 5–9 mm, stellate-puberulent and softly long-hirsute with marginal bristles 1.5 mm;

petals magenta-pink, drying dark purple, sometimes pale-veined, 5–15 mm, pistillate darker, 5 mm;

staminal column 3–6 mm, hairy;

anthers white;

stigmas 6–8.

usually bisexual, infrequently unisexual and pistillate;

calyx 4–12 mm, densely to sparsely stellate-puberulent to long-bristly;

petals usually pale pink to pink-lavender, rarely white, veins not conspicuously whitened, 5–17 mm;

staminal column 4–7 mm, hairy;

anthers white to pale pinkish or pale yellow;

stigmas (4–)6 or 7(–10).

1.5–2 mm.

1–2 mm.

4–5 mm diam.;

mericarps 6–8, 2.5 mm, glabrous or sparsely stellate-puberulent, sides slightly reticulate-veined, back rougher, pitted, mucro 0.5 mm.

4–7 mm diam.;

mericarps usually (4–)6 or 7(–10), (1.5–)2–2.5 mm, glabrous, sides usually smooth, thin, margins and back usually lightly reticulate-veined, transversely corrugated, back usually with medial, raised line, not pitted, mucro absent.

= 20.