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 or persistent;

petiole 3–10 mm, sparsely to densely villous (hairs tawny or reddish brown to brown);

blade (dull to lustrous adaxially), oblanceolate to spatulate, 23–64 × 6–22 mm, base cuneate to attenuate, margins plane, apex rounded to obtuse or retuse, abaxial surface densely sericeous (hairs tawny or reddish brown to brown), venation obscured by hairs, adaxial surface glabrous or glabrate, midrib flat or slightly sunken, marginal vein absent.

4–12-flowered.

8–40-flowered.

3–6 mm, glabrous.

4–12 mm, sericeous (hairs tawny or reddish brown to brown).

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 1.4–2.2 mm diam.;

sepals 5, 2–2.5 × 1.4–1.8 mm, sericeous (hairs tawny or reddish brown to brown);

petals 5, white, median segment elliptic to obovate, 1.7–1.8 mm, lateral segments lanceolate, 1.5–1.8 mm;

stamens 5, 2–2.3 mm;

staminodes broadly lanceolate, 1.3–1.8 mm, entire;

anthers sagittate, 0.7–1 mm;

pistil 5-carpellate;

ovary 5-locular, 0.9–1.3 mm, glabrous or strigose distally;

style 0.7–0.9 mm.

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

purplish black, ellipsoid to obovoid, 8–13 mm, glabrous.

6–11 mm.

8–12 mm.