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.

single, erect, usually branched distally with erect branches, solid, not glaucous, proximally glabrate, distally usually softly, densely bristly-hirsute, rarely glabrescent.

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;

stipules inconspicuous or deciduous, purplish, lanceolate to subulate, 3–12 × 1–2 mm;

petiole 2–7 cm, longest on proximal leaves and gradually reduced distally, proximalmost to 3 times as long as blade, reduced distally to 1/2 times or as long as blade;

blades: proximalmost early-deciduous, orbiculate, unlobed, 1–2.5 × 1–2.5 cm, base cordate, margins crenate, surfaces ± bristly, distal deeply palmately 5–7(–9)-lobed to base, 3–8 × 3–8 cm, lobes linear, margins entire, apex acute, surfaces: abaxially younger blades hirsute, older glabrous except on veins.

erect, spiciform, dense, calyces usually overlapping, ca. 20–30-flowered, proximalmost 1 or 2 flowers in leaf axils, not elongate, not 1-sided, 2–5 cm, to 20 cm in fruit;

bracts inconspicuous or deciduous, often purplish, linear, 4–8 × to 2 mm, slightly longer than pedicels, usually 2-fid, sometimes undivided.

1–3(–5) mm;

involucellar bractlets absent.

2–3 mm;

involucellar bractlets absent.

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.

bisexual, less often unisexual and pistillate and plants gynodioecious;

calyx 8–10 mm, to 10–13 mm in fruit, prominently tawny-hirsute and densely stellate-canescent;

petals pale pink to dark rose-pink or rose-purple, often with paler veins, 13–25 mm;

stamens: filaments connate to apex, funnel-like, with rim to which unstalked anthers attach;

staminal column 6–7 mm, hairy;

anthers white;

stigmas 5 or 6.

1.5–2 mm.

1.5–2 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.

8–9 mm diam.;

mericarps 5 or 6, 3–4 mm, back and sides reticulate-veined and pitted, wrinkled, ± stellate-puberulent, mucro 1 mm.

= 20.