Flora of North America species comparison

usually crowded in older plants, erect to ascending, usually reddish, grayish stellate-hairy, hairs coarse, longest 1.5 mm.

stipules wide-lanceolate to ovate, 6–8 × 2.5–3 mm;

petiole 3–6 cm, 1–3 times as long as blade;

blades on proximal portion of stem rounded, those distally with wide sinus, deeply, palmately (3–)5–7-lobed, incised ± to base, 2–6 × 2–6 cm, narrowed to base, margins crenate-dentate, surfaces coarsely stellate-hairy.

open, usually branched, 10–20 cm;

bracts distinct, ovate-lanceolate to ovate, (7–)10–12 mm, 3–4 times longer than pedicels, equaling or shorter than calyx.

1–4 mm, obscured by bracts;

involucellar bractlets 3, 8–10 mm, ± equaling calyx.

bisexual or pistillate, plants gynodioecious;

calyx 10–12 mm, densely long-bristly;

petals pinkish lavender, veins often paler, 12–15 mm;

staminal column 6–7 mm, hairy;

anthers white to pale pinkish;

stigmas usually 6.

1.5–2 mm.

5–6 mm diam.;

mericarps usually 6, (1.5–)2–2.5 mm, smooth except for dorsal-medial line and several transverse corrugations especially at margins.