Flora of North America species comparison

petiolate;

petiole 0.5–5 cm;

blade simple, elliptic or ovate to cordate, 2.5–12 × 1.2–9 cm, margins entire to deeply pinnatifid and usually 3-lobed near base, lobe margins entire, base truncate to cordate.

petiolate;

petiole 1.5–4 cm;

blade simple, ovate to elliptic, 5–25 × 3–15 cm, margins entire to shallowly lobed with 2–4 lobes per side, lobe margins entire to undulate, base obtuse to cordate.

terminal or lateral, extra-axillary, much-branched, 7–40-flowered, (1–)4–15 cm.

extra-axillary, usually much-branched, 10–20-flowered, to 10 cm.

inserted into a small sleeve on the inflorescence axis, 0.6–1.2 cm in flower and fruit.

0.5–1 cm in flower, erect and 1–2 cm in fruit.

radially symmetric;

calyx not accrescent, unarmed, 1–2 mm, glabrous to densely pubescent, lobes triangular, shallow;

corolla purple (rarely white), with green and white shiny spots at base of each lobe, deeply stellate, 1.5–2 cm diam., without interpetalar tissue;

stamens equal;

anthers oblong, slightly tapered, 4.5–6 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores that often open into longitudinal slits;

ovary glabrous.

radially symmetric;

calyx not accrescent, unarmed, 5–8 mm, densely stellate-pubescent, lobes triangular;

corolla usually blue to purple, rarely whitish, stellate to rotate-stellate, 2.5–4 cm diam., with abundant interpetalar tissue;

stamens equal;

anthers narrow and tapered, 6–8 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores;

ovary glabrous to stellate-pubescent.

bright shiny red, globose to ellipsoidal, 0.5–1.5 × 0.5–1 cm, glabrous, without sclerotic granules.

yellow to orange, globose, 0.7–1.5 cm diam., stellate-pubescent at apex, without sclerotic granules.

pale yellow or tan, flattened, 2–3 mm diam., minutely pitted.

yellow to light brown, flattened, 2.5–3 × 2–2.5 mm, minutely pitted.

, climbing or scrambling, herbaceous or woody, unarmed, to 8–10 m, sparsely to densely pubescent, hairs unbranched and/or dendritic, rarely glabrous.

= 24.