Flora of North America species comparison

persistent, 2-ternately compound or 3-5-foliolate, 10-18 cm;

petiole 3-12 cm, sparsely hairy.

falling when fruits maturing, 2-3-ternately compound, 8-30 cm;

petiole 3-25 cm, pilose at base.

blades ovate to oblong, slightly 3-lobed, leathery, base cordate, margins thickened, crisped, apex notched;

surfaces abaxially pubescent, glaucous, adaxially glabrous to rarely pubescent.

blades narrowly to broadly ovate to rhomboid or rounded pentagonal, often 3-lobed, base cordate, margins entire to slightly sinuate and not conspicuously thickened, apex rounded to notched;

surfaces abaxially sparsely hairy, adaxially glabrous.

peduncle 2-3 dm;

pedicel 1-4 cm, stipitate-glandular.

peduncle 2-3 dm;

pedicel 1-3 cm, glands absent.

4-15;

bracteoles 6-9, tan to brown, 1-4 mm, caducous, stipitate-glandular;

sepals 6, yellow, spatulate, 6-10 mm, stipitate-glandular;

petals 6, yellow, 4-6 mm, margins entire, apex strongly reflexed, apical nectary darker yellow;

filaments stipitate-glandular.

5-30;

bracteoles 6-9, white, yellowish when dried, dotted with glandular trichomes;

sepals 6, white, 5-12 mm;

petals 6, white, yellowish when dried, 4-6 mm, margins entire, petal apex strongly reflexed, with nectar-bearing pocket, nectaries golden;

filaments stipitate-glandular.

3-10, reddish brown, reniform to oblong, 3-4 mm.

1-6, black, lunate to reniform, 3 mm.

greenish brown, 8-15 mm including beak, beak 3-4 mm, densely stipitate-glandular.

greenish to light brown, 10-15 mm including beak, beak 2-3 mm, stipitate-glandular.

= 12.

= 12.