Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, often unbranched or branched proximally, 0.6–3(–3.5) dm, trichomes simple, to 1 mm, mixed with smaller, dendritic ones.

petiole 0.5–3.2 cm, ciliate or not;

blade obovate to ovate in outline, (terminal segments linear, oblong, or ovate), 0.7–2.5 cm × 4–14 mm, (terminal segments 0.2–1.1 cm × 1–5 mm), margins palmately (3 or) 5 (or 7)-lobed, (surfaces densely pubescent, trichomes dendritic, often mixed with larger, simple ones, to 1 mm), apex obtuse or subacute.

shortly petiolate or sessile;

blade often similar to basal, smaller distally, margins sometimes pinnatifid.

considerably elongated in fruit.

sepals (usually persistent), 2.5–3.2 mm;

petals purple to lavender, suborbicular to obovate, 4–5 × 1.5–2 mm, narrowed to claw, 1.5–2.5 mm, apex rounded;

anthers oblong, 0.4–0.5 mm.

spreading to divaricate-ascending, (secund, often curved), proximalmost bracteate, 6–15(–20) mm, pubescent, trichomes simple mixed with smaller, dendritic ones.

spreading to ascending, usually oblanceolate to spatulate or linear-oblanceolate, rarely oblong-obovate, angustiseptate, (8–)12–28 × 4–8 mm, base cuneate, apex obtuse;

valves each with prominent midvein and distinct lateral veins, (rarely sparsely pubescent);

ovules 10–18 per ovary;

style 0.1–1.1 mm.

1.5–2.2 × 1–1.3 mm.

= 12.