Flora of North America species comparison

deciduous;

petiole 1–6.5 mm, glabrous;

blade (dark green adaxially), broadly elliptic, obovate, oblanceolate, or spatulate, 6–38 × 3–23 mm, base attenuate to cuneate, margins plane, apex rounded to obtuse, surfaces glabrous, tertiary and smaller veins not prominent (inconspicuously reticulate), midrib flat, marginal vein present.

deciduous;

petiole 3–7 mm, glabrate;

blade (lustrous dark green adaxially), elliptic-ovate, 34–69 × 15–32 mm, base attenuate to cuneate, margins plane, apex rounded to obtuse, abaxial surface densely sericeous (hairs silvery), venation obscured by hairs, adaxial surface glabrous, midrib flat, marginal vein absent.

4–12-flowered.

6–20-flowered.

3–6 mm, glabrous.

4–5 mm, velutinous (hairs silvery white to tawny).

calyx 1.8–3 mm diam.;

sepals 5, 1.7–3 × 0.9–1.9 mm, glabrous;

petals 5(–6), white to yellowish, median segment elliptic, 1.9–2.3 mm, lateral segments lanceolate, 1.3–2.3 mm;

stamens 5(–6), 2.2–2.9 mm;

staminodes lanceolate, 1.7–2.1 mm, minutely erose;

anthers lanceolate, 0.7–1 mm;

pistil 5-carpellate;

ovary 5-locular, 0.9–1.3 mm, hirsute to strigose basally;

style 2.2–2.8 mm.

calyx 1.6–2.4 mm diam.;

sepals 5(–6), 1.9–2.6 × 0.9–1.9 mm, silvery-sericeous;

petals 5(–6), white, median segment elliptic to ovate, 1.7–2.1 mm, lateral segments lanceolate, 1.6–2 mm;

stamens 5(–6), 1.9–2.4 mm;

staminodes deltate, 2–2.2 mm, minutely erose;

anthers sagittate, 0.9–1.3 mm;

pistil 5(–6)-carpellate;

ovary 5(–6)-locular, 1.5–1.8 mm, velutinous;

style 1.4–1.5 mm.

purple to purplish black, ellipsoid, 8–12 mm, glabrous.

shiny black, oblong to ovoid, 10–13 mm, glabrate.

6–11 mm.

9–10 mm.