Flora of North America species comparison

erect, gray to gray-green, to 21 dm, glabrous or coarse-canescent.

erect, red-purple basally, 3–8 dm, stellate-canescent.

blades green to gray-green, ovate-triangular to lanceolate, 3-lobed, 2.5–5.5 cm, not rugose, base cordate to truncate, margins crenate to serrate, surfaces stellate-pubescent.

blades green, ovate to deltate, 3- or 5-lobed, digitate, spatulate, secondary divisions of lobes frequent, basal lobes frequently not divided, 1–4(–7) cm, not rugose, base truncate or cuneate, margins entire, surfaces gray-green stellate-canescent.

paniculate, proximally open, distally crowded, flowers clustered, tip not leafy;

involucellar bractlets green to tan, rarely red.

paniculate, open, 1–few-flowered, very few-leaved, tip not leafy;

involucellar bractlets green to red-purple.

sepals 6–8 mm;

petals red-orange, pink, or lavender, 10–12 mm;

anthers yellow.

sepals 4.5–8.5 mm;

petals red-orange, 8–15 mm;

anthers yellow.

1 or 2 per mericarp, brown or black, pubescent.

2 per mericarp, brown to black, glabrous or sparsely pubescent.

truncate-conic;

mericarps 10–16, 4.5–5 × 2.5 mm, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 60% of height, tip acute, indehiscent part not wider than dehiscent part.

hemispheric;

mericarps 10(–14), 3–5 × 2 mm, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 50% of height, tip rounded to acute, indehiscent part wider than dehiscent part, sides reticulate.

= 20, 30, 50.