Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, usually gray to gray-green or green, sometimes purple to black, (2–)4–7(–10) dm, sparsely to densely canescent or hirsute.

1–3(–5), erect, gray-green, 2–2.5 dm, white-gray canescent.

blades green or gray to gray-green, lanceolate to triangular, shallowly to deeply 3-lobed, (1.5–)3–7 cm, not rugose, base truncate to cuneate, margins crenate to dentate, surfaces hirsute or sparsely to densely stellate soft-pubescent.

blades gray-green or green, ovate, unlobed or 3-lobed, 5–8 cm, wrinkled, not rugose, base cuneate, margins coarsely toothed, surfaces stellate-pubescent.

paniculate, narrow, usually crowded, tip leafy or not;

involucellar bractlets green to tan.

racemose, open, 3–6-flowered, tip not leafy;

involucellar bractlets tan.

sepals 4.5–6(–9) mm;

petals red-orange or lavender, 8–13 mm;

anthers yellow.

sepals 11–15 mm;

petals red-orange, 15–22 mm;

anthers yellow.

2 per mericarp, black, pubescent.

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

cylindric to conic;

mericarps 9–16, 4–5.5 × 2–2.5 mm, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 70–80% of height, tip reflexed and cuspidate, indehiscent part not wider than dehiscent part, sides faintly, very finely reticulate, tips reflexed.

flattened-spheric;

mericarps 13, 3–6 × 2–4.5 mm, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 60% of height, tip rounded, indehiscent part not wider than dehiscent part.