Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, white or yellow, to 10–20 dm, rubbery, densely soft stellate-pubescent.

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 white or yellow, deltate to lanceolate, subhastate to 3-lobed, 4–7 cm, secondary lobes to 2.2 cm, not rugose, base cuneate, margins crenate to dentate, surfaces green- to white-canescent.

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

involucellar bractlets green to tan, rarely red.

paniculate, open, many-flowered, interrupted, tip leafy;

involucellar bractlets green to tan.

sepals 6–8 mm;

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

anthers yellow.

sepals 6–7 mm;

petals white, pink, lavender, purple, red-orange, or red, 10–13 mm;

anthers yellow.

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

1 or 2 per mericarp, gray, 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.

short-urceolate;

mericarps 12–14, (3.5–)4–5.5 × 2–3 mm, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 60% of height, with usually reflexed cusps to 2 mm, indehiscent part not wider than dehiscent part.

= 20, 30, 50.

=20.