Flora of North America species comparison

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

ascending to erect, gray-green, 2–5(–7.5) dm, canescent to tomentose.

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 gray-green, widely ovate or triangular to orbiculate, all but proximalmost deeply pedately divided, (1–)2–4 cm, not rugose, base truncate to cordate, margins entire, surfaces stellate-pubescent.

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

involucellar bractlets green to tan.

racemose or paniculate, narrow, open, few–many-flowered, tip not leafy;

involucellar bractlets green to tan.

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

petals red-orange, 11–14 mm;

anthers yellow.

sepals 6–7 mm, not forming beak;

petals lavender, red-orange, or pink, 10–13.5(–18) mm;

anthers yellow or purple.

1 per mericarp, brown, slightly hairy.

2 per mericarp, 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.

hemispheric to truncate-conic;

mericarps 12–15, 4–7 × 2.5–3 mm, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 55–65% of height, with prominent ventral beak, tip acutish, cuspidate, indehiscent part not wider than dehiscent part, sides prominently reticulate.

= 20.