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 0.5–3 cm;

blade simple, elliptic to lanceolate, 1.5–8 × 1–4 cm, margins entire or nearly so, base cuneate to attenuate.

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

extra-axillary, unbranched or rarely forked, umbel-like, 3–8-flowered, 1–2 cm.

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

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

radially symmetric;

calyx not accrescent, unarmed, 1.5–3 mm, sparsely pubescent, lobes deltate, reflexed in fruit;

corolla white with yellowish central star, stellate, 1–1.5 cm diam., with sparse interpetalar tissue;

stamens equal;

anthers ellipsoidal, 2–3 mm, dehiscent by terminal pores that open into longitudinal slits;

ovary glabrous.

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

dull purplish black, globose, 0.5–1.5 cm diam., glabrous, without (or rarely with 2) sclerotic granules.

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

pale yellow, flattened, 1–1.3 × 0.8–0.9 mm, minutely pitted.

= 24.

= 24.