Flora of North America species comparison

solitary to many, erect or ascending, rarely decumbent.

1–2 m;

herbage sparsely stellate-pubescent to glabrate.

blades deeply 5- or 7-lobed, 6–13 cm wide, lobes lanceolate to triangular, middle lobe ± equaling to 2 times length of lateral lobes, base truncate to cordate, margins coarsely dentate.

clusters forming interrupted spikes to racemes;

involucellar bractlets lanceolate-ovate, 8–12 × 2–3 mm, 3/4 as long as calyx.

calyx somewhat accrescent or not, not inflated, lobes not strongly ribbed, lanceolate to ovate or ovate-triangular;

corolla campanulate to subrotate, whitish or pinkish to rose-purple, exceeding calyx;

staminal column ± included;

filaments terminal and subterminal;

ovary (6–)10–15(or 16)-carpellate;

ovules 2 or 3(or 4) per carpel;

styles (6–)10–15(or 16)-branched, (branches equal in number to carpels);

stigmas terminal, obliquely capitate.

calyx 11–18 mm, lobes triangular-ovate, 8–10 × 5–8 mm, broader than long, exceeding tube, densely villous-hirsute;

petals pink, drying purplish, 2–3 cm.

schizocarps, erect, not inflated, subglobose, apically retuse, moderately indurate;

mericarps (6–)10–15(or 16), drying black, 1-celled, oblong in lateral view, rounded at apex, thin-walled, smooth laterally, without dorsal spur, densely pubescent dorsally and apically with coarse, hirsute, velutinous simple hairs overlaying stellate hairs, sides smooth, glabrous, dehiscence loculicidal except ventral-basally where joined to columella by vascular bundles.

2 or 3(or 4) per mericarp, reniform to obovate-reniform, glabrate or puberulent marginally with simple, white to tawny hairs 1–2 mm.

2 or 3, dark brown, 2.5–3 mm, muricate, with few simple hairs.

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12–15 mm diam.;

mericarps 12, 10 mm.

= 33.