Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, gray-green to purple, 3–6 dm, sparsely 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 light green, sometimes with purple margins, triangular to broadly ovate, pedately divided or 3–5-lobed, 1.5–5 cm, not rugose, base truncate to cordate, margins entire, surfaces sparsely stellate-pubescent.

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

involucellar bractlets green to tan, rarely red.

paniculate, crowded, few-flowered per node, tip ± leafy;

involucellar bractlets red to purple.

sepals 6–8 mm;

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

anthers yellow.

sepals sometimes red or purple, 6–15 mm, lobes equaling to 3 times tube length;

petals red-orange, 10–20 mm;

anthers usually red to purple, sometimes yellow.

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

1 or 2 per mericarp, black-gray, glabrous or 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.

truncate-spheric;

mericarps 13, 4.5–6 × 2–2.5 mm, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 55–80% of height, tip acute, indehiscent part not wider than dehiscent part.

= 20, 30, 50.