Flora of North America species comparison

erect, green or gray-green, 1.5–4(–10) dm, white- to yellow-canescent.

ascending to decumbent, green to gray-green, 1–3(–5) dm, canescent.

blades gray to green, ovate, unlobed or weakly 3–5-lobed, 1–5.5 cm, not rugose, base cuneate to cordate, margins entire or crenate to serrate, surfaces stellate-pubescent.

blades green to gray-green, oblong-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, unlobed, lobed, or pedately divided, (1–)2–6 cm, not rugose, base cuneate to cordate, margins entire, crenate, or dentate, usually green or tan, surfaces stellate-pubescent.

paniculate, crowded, flowers clustered with distinct internodes between clusters, tip not leafy;

involucellar bractlets usually green to tan, sometimes red-purple.

paniculate or racemose, open or crowded, flowers clustered or solitary, tip leafy or not;

involucellar bractlets green to tan.

sepals 6–9 mm, tip not forming distinct beak in bud;

petals red-orange, 8–14 mm;

anthers yellow.

sepals 4–11 mm, tips forming beak in bud;

petals red-orange, pink, or purple, 10–20 mm;

anthers yellow or purple.

1 per mericarp, gray or black, ± pubescent.

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

ellipsoid;

mericarps 12, 3.5–5.5 × 1.5–3 mm, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 60–70% of height, with or without apical cusp, indehiscent part not wider than dehiscent part.

widely conic;

mericarps 10–30, 3–7 × 1.5–2.5 mm, thickish, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 60–80% of height, tip obtuse to acute, usually muticous (to mucronate to cuspidate), cusp 1–2 mm, indehiscent part sometimes wider than dehiscent part.

= 10, 20.

= 10, 30.