Flora of North America species comparison

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

3–5(–7), erect, yellow to yellow-green, (4–)6–18(–30) dm, rubbery when fresh, sometimes appearing slightly ridged or fasciated when dry, densely 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 light green to yellow-green, deltate or elongate-deltate, unlobed or weakly 3-lobed, center lobe sometimes elongate, lobes relatively broad, 3–5(–7) cm, not rugose, rubbery, base cuneate or truncate to cordate, margins entire or crenulate to undulate, 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, crowded, flowers long-interrupted, tip not leafy;

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 3.5–6.5 mm, spheric in bud;

petals red-orange to pale red, 10–17 mm;

anthers yellow.

1 per mericarp, gray or black, ± pubescent.

2 per mericarp, brown, 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.

hemispheric;

mericarps 11–15, 4–5.5 × 2–2.5 mm, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 60–75% of height, tip reflexed, indehiscent part not wider than dehiscent part, sides faintly to prominently and finely reticulate with thin-translucent areolae.

= 10, 20.

= 10, 20.