Flora of North America species comparison

petiolate;

petiole 0.5–2.5 cm;

blade simple, elliptic to oblong, 2–5 × 1–3 cm, margins shallowly lobed to deeply and regularly pinnatifid with 3–6 lobes per side, lobe margins entire or occasionally coarsely lobed, base cuneate and decurrent.

petiolate;

petiole 2–6 cm;

blade simple to compound, broadly ovate, 5–10 × 2.5–8 cm, margins 2–3 times lobed or divided with 3–4 main leaflets per side, leaflets with acute lobes, base truncate.

extra-axillary, unbranched, umbel-like, 1–6-flowered, 1–3 cm.

extra-axillary, unbranched, 5–9-flowered, 4–7 cm.

spreading and 0.5–1.5 cm in flower, reflexed and 0.5–1.5 cm in fruit.

1–1.5 cm in flower, 1–1.5 cm and erect in fruit.

radially symmetric;

calyx accrescent and covering base of berry, unarmed, 2–4(–7) mm, moderately pubescent, lobes deltate, reflexed;

corolla white or light purple with green or purplish central star, stellate, 0.5–1 cm diam., with sparse interpetalar tissue;

stamens equal;

anthers narrowly ellipsoidal, 2.5–4 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores that open into longitudinal slits;

ovary glabrous.

bilaterally symmetric;

calyx accrescent and tightly covering fruit, densely prickly, 3–5 mm, densely pubescent, lobes linear;

corolla violet or blue, pentagonal-stellate, 1.4–2 cm diam., with interpetalar tissue at the margins and bases of lobes;

stamens unequal, lowermost much longer and curved;

anthers narrow and tapered, dehiscent by terminal pores, short anthers yellow, 4–5.5 mm, longer anther purplish, 5.5–8.5 mm;

ovary glabrous.

shiny dark green to purplish black, globose, 0.8–2 cm diam., glabrous, with 13–30 sclerotic granules.

brown, globose, 0.8–1 cm diam., glabrous, dry, without sclerotic granules.

yellow, plump, 2–3 × 2–2.5 mm, minutely pitted.

dark brown, flattened, 2.6–3 × 2–2.5 mm, minutely pitted.

= 24.

= 24.