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 2–5 cm;

blade simple to compound, broadly ovate, 8–15 × 3–8.5 cm, margins deeply lobed to divided with 4–7 lobes or leaflets per side, lobes or leaflets with rounded to acute lobes, base acute or cordate.

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

extra-axillary, unbranched, 4–11-flowered, 4–15 cm.

erect and 0.2–0.5 cm in flower and fruit.

0.5–1 cm in flower, 1.5–2.5 cm in 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 accrescent, moderately prickly, 6–9 mm, densely pubescent, hairs simple or sessile and stellate, glandular and eglandular, lobes subtending to almost completely and loosely covering fruit at maturity, deltate;

corolla white or pale blue, rotate-pentagonal, 2–3 cm diam., with abundant interpetalar tissue;

stamens equal or nearly so;

anthers narrow and tapered, 8–10 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores;

ovary glabrous to sparsely glandular-pubescent.

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

bright red, globose, 1–2 cm diam., glabrous to sparsely glandular-pubescent, juicy, without sclerotic granules.

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

pale yellow, plump, 3–3.5 × 2–3 mm, minutely pitted.

= 24.

= 24.