Flora of North America species comparison

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

clustered or scattered, erect to ascending, or decumbent to suberect, sometimes rooting, unbranched or branched, solid, usually densely to sparsely hirsute, stellate-hairy, or glabrescent, hairs 1–2 mm, distal stem usually more sparsely hairy to glabrate.

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 and/or cauline;

stipules green or purplish, linear-lanceolate or wide-lanceolate to oblong or ovate, 3–8(–12) × 1–3.5(–5) mm, often hairy to ciliate;

petioles of proximalmost leaves (5–)6–15(–30) cm, 3–9 times as long as blades, much reduced distally to 1/2–2 times as long as blade;

blades: proximalmost usually orbiculate, sometimes reniform, unlobed or shallowly lobed, (1–)4–15 × (1–)4–12 cm, base cordate, margins crenate, apex rounded, surfaces hairy, hairs stiff, either or both simple and stellate or forked, lobes cuneate-obovate, margins dentate;

mid stem unlobed or palmately 5–9-lobed, margins coarsely crenate-serrate, lobes toothed or lobed to dissected;

distalmost smaller, sometimes subsessile.

erect or somewhat ascending, dense, subcapitate or spicate especially when young to elongated and open, calyces overlapping or not, not long-pedunculate, usually unbranched, 2–21-flowered, usually light or bright pink to lavender or dark rose-purple, rarely white, pale-veined, 7–20(–30) mm, pistillate 7–11(–30) mm, bisexual 10–25(–30) mm;

staminal column 4–8 mm, hairy;

anthers white to pale pink or pale yellow;

stigmas (6 or)7 or 8(or 9).

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.

1.5–2 mm.

1.5–3 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.

4–8 mm diam.;

mericarps (6 or)7 or 8(or 9), 2.5–4 mm, usually minutely hirtellous, stellate-puberulent, or glandular, rarely glabrous, roughened, sides ± honeycomb-pitted and reticulate-veined, back less so, mucro 0.3–1 mm.

= 20, 40, 60.