Flora of North America species comparison

single, erect, unbranched or distally branched, often zigzag, solid, proximally usually glabrous or sparsely stellate-puberulent.

single, erect, usually branched distally, solid, both short-stellate-puberulent and long soft bristly-hairy, hairs erect.

cauline;

stipules deciduous or inconspicuous, sometimes purplish, subulate, 1–1.5(–3) × 0.5–1 mm;

petiole 0.5–1.5(–3) cm, usually 1/2 times involucellar bractlets absent.

basal, early-deciduous, and cauline;

mid to distal stem stipules divided into 2–5 filiform or linear segments, involucrelike, 10+ × 1 mm;

petiole (4–)6–20(–50) cm, usually 1/2 times to as long as blade;

basal leaf blades orbiculate, unlobed, 1–2.5 × 1–2.5 cm, base cordate, margins crenate, apex rounded;

cauline leaf blades orbiculate, palmately 5–7-lobed, (1–)2–6 × (1–)2–6 cm, lobes linear distally, sometimes 3-toothed or -lobed, then midtooth or lobe much longer than laterals, margins entire, surfaces bristly-puberulent.

erect, dense, calyces overlapping, occasionally short-branched, clusters to 10-flowered, subumbellate to elongate in age, not 1-sided;

bracts linear or filiform, palmately 2–7-lobed, 8–12 mm, lobes linear, usually becoming involucrelike, 1–2.5 cm, subequal to or longer than calyx.

1–3 mm, (short branches may easily be mistaken for pedicels);

involucellar bractlets absent.

bisexual or unisexual and pistillate, plants gynodioecious;

calyx 8–10(–12) mm, not much enlarging in fruit, stellate-canescent, sparsely ciliate;

petals pink to rose-purple or white, pale-veined, often whitened at base, 18–20(–25) mm;

stamens: outer filaments incompletely connate, distally distinct, anthers not attached to connate portion of filaments;

staminal column 6–7 mm, hairy;

anthers white, stalked, aborted in pistillate flowers;

stigmas 6 or 7.

bisexual;

calyx 8–12 mm, not much accrescent, lobes often with narrow purple line or spot at lobe base inside, outer surface bristly-hairy and stellate-puberulent, seldom densely glandular, multicellular hairs usually few or absent;

petals dark pink to deep purple, veins often paler, darker patch sometimes at base, 20–35 mm;

staminal column 4–6 mm, hairy;

anthers sessile on rim, white;

stigmas 5 or 6.

1.5–2 mm.

2 mm.

5–7 mm diam.;

mericarps 6 or 7, 2.5–4 mm, sides smooth, margins rugose, back reticulate-veined, deeply pitted especially on top, glabrous or glandular-puberulent, mucro 0.5–0.8(–1) mm.

6–7 mm diam.;

mericarps 5 or 6, sometimes pinkish when fresh, 2.5 mm, glabrous, back minutely hairy, back and sides reticulate-veined, back with prominent midvein, not pitted, mucro absent.

= 20.