Flora of North America species comparison

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

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

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 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.

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

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

racemose or paniculate, narrow, open, few–many-flowered, 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 6–7 mm, not forming beak;

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

anthers yellow or purple.

1 per mericarp, gray or black, ± pubescent.

2 per mericarp, black, 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 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.

= 10, 20.

= 20.