Flora of North America species comparison

usually several, clustered, erect, often purplish, often thick and hollow proximally, usually proximally ± scabrous, hairs stellate and distally stellate-hairy, sometimes glabrous.

several, scattered, erect, arising from rhizome apices, usually slightly hollow, densely, harshly bristly-hirsute, hairs stiff, pustular, simple, forked, or stellate, often 2–2.5 mm.

mostly cauline;

stipules persistent or deciduous, lanceolate, 6–8 × 1–1.5 mm;

proximal petioles 25–30 cm, 4–5 times as long as blade, reduced to 7–13 cm on midstem leaves and to 2–3 cm on distalmost leaves, these to 1/2 times as long as blades;

basal blades wide-ovate to orbiculate, shallowly to deeply, palmately 5–7(–9)-lobed, 6–13 × 6–13 cm, lobe margins toothed, teeth rounded, sometimes Ribes-like, base cordate, apex rounded, surfaces: abaxial densely stellate-pubescent, adaxial glabrous or sparsely stellate-pubescent on veins;

cauline blades round, divided nearly to base, 5–9-lobed, lobes again deeply incised to subentire, 10–20 × 10–20 cm, distalmost 5–7-cleft to base.

basal and cauline;

stipules linear-subulate, 6–8 × 1–1.5 mm;

petioles of proximal leaves 20–30 cm, 3 times as long as blades, reduced distally to 1/2 times as long as blades;

blades: basal and proximalmost orbiculate to reniform, shallowly 5–9-lobed, 10–15 × 10–15 cm, thick, base narrowly cordate, lobe margins coarsely crenate-dentate, apex rounded, surfaces coarsely hirsute, hairs stiff;

distal orbiculate, deeply palmately 5–7-lobed, incised ± to base, lobes sometimes lobed again, base cuneate, apex acute, deeply 2–3-toothed, surfaces long-hirsute or with 2–4-rayed, stellate hairs abaxially.

erect, spiciform, dense, calyces usually conspicuously overlapping in flower and sometimes in fruit, usually 20–30-branched per primary stem, 20+-flowered, elongate, not 1-sided, most flowers usually open at same time, branches relatively short, each spike unit 6 cm, longer in fruit;

bracts ovate-lanceolate to subulate, undivided, 1–6(–10) mm, subequal or longer than pedicels, much shorter than calyx.

erect, spiciform to subcapitate, dense, calyces usually conspicuously overlapping in flower and sometimes in fruit, proximals usually long-pedunculate, unbranched or branched, 20+-flowered, 10+ flowers usually open on spike at same time, not interrupted, not 1-sided, usually to 8 cm, usually not elongate but sometimes slightly elongated in some populations and to 20 cm in fruit;

bracts paired or single, linear, distal undivided, proximal distinct to base, 6 mm, mostly slightly longer than pedicels.

1–2(–5) mm;

involucellar bractlets absent.

1–3(–5) mm;

involucellar bractlets absent.

bisexual or unisexual and pistillate, pistillate plants more frequent than bisexual ones, some flowers may be staminate, plants gynodioecious;

calyx urceolate with swollen base especially in young fruit, pistillate 6–8 mm, bisexual 6–10 mm, strongly reticulate-veined, usually finely stellate-puberulent, sometimes glabrate, lobes usually purple tinted;

petals 7 or 8, pale pink, pinkish rose, or rose-purple, usually neither pale-veined nor white at base, pistillate 8–12(–14) mm, staminate or bisexual (10–)11–19(–23) mm;

staminal column 5–6 mm, hairy;

anthers white;

stigmas 7 or 8.

bisexual or unisexual and pistillate, plants gynodioecious;

calyx often purple tinted, 9–11 mm, to 11–16 mm in fruit, margins ciliate, hairs 1–2 mm, surfaces finely stellate-hairy at base and with coarser, longer, simple and stellate hairs apically;

petals usually pale pink to rose-lavender, rarely white, slightly or not pale-veined, (9–)10–21 mm, pistillate often 9–14 mm;

staminal column 5–7(–10) mm, hairy;

anthers white;

stigmas 5–10.

2 mm.

2.5–3.5 mm.

6 mm diam.;

mericarps 7 or 8, 3 mm, apical margins ± rounded, sides smooth or slightly reticulate-veined, not pitted, back essentially smooth, very sparsely glandular-puberulent near tip, mucro 0.5–1 mm.

7–8 mm diam.;

mericarps 5–10, 3.5–4 mm, glabrous or sparsely stellate-puberulent, roughened, prominently reticulate-veined, sides rugose and pitted, back less so, mucro 0.6–0.8 mm.

= 20.

= 60.