Flora of North America species comparison

petiolate;

petiole 1–8 cm;

blade simple, elliptic to ovate, 11–31 × 4–14 cm, margins entire, base acute, often with smaller axillary leaves.

petiolate;

petiole 0.2–1 cm;

blade simple, elliptic to obovate, 2.2–8.6 × 1.1–5.1 cm, margins entire, sinuate, or shallowly lobed with 2–6 lobes per side, lobe margins entire, base cuneate to attenuate.

terminal, becoming leaf-opposed, much-branched, 50–100-flowered, 5–24 cm.

extra-axillary, unbranched, 1–4-flowered, 3–7 cm.

erect and 0.2–0.5 cm in flower and fruit.

1–3.5 cm in flower and fruit.

radially symmetric;

calyx slightly accrescent, unarmed, 4–7.5 mm, densely pubescent, lobes deltate;

corolla purple, stellate-pentagonal, 1–1.5 cm diam., with abundant interpetalar tissue;

stamens equal;

anthers oblong, 2–3.5 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores that open into longitudinal slits;

ovary tomentose.

radially symmetric;

calyx not accrescent, unarmed or sparsely prickly, 6–7 mm, densely stellate-pubescent, lobes triangular;

corolla white, stellate to stellate-pentagonal, 1.8–3 cm diam., with abundant interpetalar tissue at margins and base of lobes;

stamens equal;

anthers narrow and tapered, 6–7 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores;

ovary glabrous.

yellow, globose, 1–1.5 cm diam., tomentose, without sclerotic granules.

unknown.

yellowish brown, flattened, 1.5–2.5 × 1.5–2 mm, minutely pitted.

unknown.

= 24.