Flora of North America species comparison

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

3–6, ascending or decumbent, light green to grayish, 1–3(–5) dm, stellate- green.

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.

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

involucellar bractlets green to tan.

sepals 6–7 mm, not forming beak;

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

anthers yellow or purple.

sepals 5–10 mm;

petals red-orange, 5–20 mm;

anthers yellow.

2 per mericarp, black, pubescent.

1 per mericarp, gray to black, ± glabrous.

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.

flattened spheric-conic;

mericarps 10–14, 3–3.5 × 2.5–3 mm, thick, coriaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 10–35% of height, muticous, indehiscent part usually wider than dehiscent part.

= 20.