Flora of North America species comparison

petiolate;

petiole 1–5 cm;

blade simple, lanceolate to oblong, 5–15 × 0.5–3 cm, margins undulate, subentire to sinuate or shallowly lobed, lobe margins entire, base truncate to cuneate.

petiolate;

petiole 0.5–3 cm;

blade simple, ovate, 3.5–7 × 2.2–5 cm, margins entire to coarsely toothed with 3–5 lobes per side, base truncate to cuneate.

extra-axillary, unbranched, 3–5(–7)-flowered, 3–5 cm.

extra-axillary, unbranched or occasionally forked, racemelike, (3–)4–10-flowered, 1–2 cm.

1–3 cm in flower, reflexed and 1–3 cm in fruit.

0.5–1 cm, spreading to occasionally recurved in flower and fruit.

radially symmetric;

calyx not accrescent, unarmed or with sparse prickles, 5–10 mm, densely silvery-stellate-pubescent, lobes linear-lanceolate;

corolla pale to deep blue or violet, rarely white, pentagonal-stellate, 2–3(–3.5) cm diam., with abundant interpetalar tissue;

stamens equal;

anthers narrow and tapered, 6–9 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores;

ovary glabrous to densely stellate-pubescent.

radially symmetric;

calyx not accrescent, unarmed, 1.5–2 mm, sparsely pubescent, lobes deltate, spreading to reflexed in fruit;

corolla white with yellowish central star, stellate, 1–1.5 cm diam., without interpetalar tissue;

stamens equal;

anthers ellipsoidal, (1.8–)2–2.5 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores that open into longitudinal slits;

ovary glabrous.

yellow to orange, drying brown or black, globose, 0.5–1.5 cm diam., glabrous, without sclerotic granules.

dull or slightly shiny purple-black or green to yellowish green, globose, 0.5–1 cm diam., glabrous, without sclerotic granules.

yellowish, flattened, 3–5 × 2–4 mm, minutely pitted.

yellow, flattened, 1.8–2 × 1.5–1.6 mm, minutely pitted.

= 24, 48, 72.

= 72.