Flora of North America species comparison

erect, green to gray-green, 2.5–9 dm, gray-green canescent.

decumbent to erect, green to gray-green, (1–)3–4(–5.5) dm, sparsely pubescent.

blades green to gray-green, triangular, unlobed or weakly 5-lobed, to 4.5 cm, not rugose, base cuneate to truncate, margins coarsely toothed, surfaces stellate-pubescent.

blades green to gray-green, wide-triangular, 3-lobed or pedately divided, (0.5–)1.5–2.5(–4) cm, not rugose, base cuneate, margins entire, surfaces stellate-pubescent.

narrowly paniculate, crowded, few–many-flowered, flowers in clusters, tip not leafy;

involucellar bractlets green to tan.

racemose, flowers solitary or proximal nodes 2- or 3-flowered, tip ± leafless;

involucellar bractlets green to tan.

sepals 4–9 mm, tips forming weak beak in bud;

petals red-orange, 11–14 mm;

anthers yellow.

sepals 3.5–8 mm;

petals red-orange, 8–14 mm;

anthers purple.

1 per mericarp, brown, slightly hairy.

1(or 2) per mericarp, brown or black, glabrous or pubescent.

spheric;

mericarps 12, 3.5–4 × 2.5–3 mm, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 55% of height, tip acute, with reflexed apical cusp, indehiscent part not wider than dehiscent part.

cylindric to widely conic;

mericarps 9–13, 3–5 × 2–2.5 mm, thickish, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 50–60% of height, tip muticous to short-cuspidate, indehiscent part not wider than dehiscent part, sides finely, not highly reticulate.

= 10.