Flora of North America species comparison

erect, leafy, 40–90 cm, densely stipitate-glandular.

in basal rosette and cauline;

cauline leaves 2–3, alternate, relatively large, reduced distally;

stipules present;

petiole stipitate-glandular;

blade orbiculate or ovate, shallowly 5–9-lobed, base cordate, ultimate margins serrate to crenate, apex acute or rounded, surfaces sparsely stipitate-glandular on veins abaxially, sparsely to moderately densely long stipitate-glandular or glandular-hispid adaxially;

venation palmate.

stipules sheathing, greenish, ca. 5 mm, membranous;

petiole 3–30 cm;

blade 3.5–10 cm, ultimate margins ciliate.

racemes, terminal from axillary buds in rosette, 14–30-flowered, bracteate.

40–90 cm, densely stipitate-glandular or glandular-hispid;

bracts subtending pedicels scalelike.

hypanthium adnate to ovary in proximal 1/2, free 2–3 mm, green;

sepals 5, greenish;

petals 5, greenish white or cream to pinkish red (sometimes drying dark red);

nectary tissue not seen or inconspicuous;

stamens 10;

filaments filiform;

ovary 1/4 inferior, 1-locular;

placentation parietal;

styles 2;

stigmas 2, (enlarged).

hypanthium campanulate to widely urceolate, 4.5–9 mm, stipitate-glandular;

sepals erect, elliptic, 1–3 mm, apex acute;

petals erect proximally, spreading to reflexed distally, obovate, 5–7-lobed, 3–7 mm, lobes usually linear;

stamens included, 0.8–1 mm;

filaments 0.5 mm;

styles included, 1–1.5 mm.

2-beaked.

ovoid, 7–8 mm.

dark brown, ellipsoid, warty.

100–150, 0.8–1 mm.

= 7.

= 14.