Flora of North America species comparison

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

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

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

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

involucellar bractlets green to tan.

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

involucellar bractlets green to tan, rarely red.

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

petals red-orange, 11–14 mm;

anthers yellow.

sepals 6–8 mm;

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

anthers yellow.

1 per mericarp, brown, slightly hairy.

1 or 2 per mericarp, brown or black, 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.

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.

= 20, 30, 50.