Flora of North America species comparison

erect, proximally often brick red, otherwise greenish to grayish, canescent, hairs coarse, stellate.

stipules linear-lanceolate, 7–9 × 1.5 mm;

petiole 2–3(–7) cm, 1/2–3 times as long as blade, shortest on distalmost leaves;

blade usually rounded to reniform with narrow sinus, or deeply cordate especially on largest proximal leaves, to flabelliform with wide-cuneate base in distal leaves, unlobed, rarely incised to 1/4 length, 2.5–7 × 2.5–7 cm, margins coarsely crenate, grayish canescent.

dense, usually branched, 10–20 cm;

bracts distinct, linear to wide-lanceolate, often somewhat falcate, 2–5(–7) × 0.5–2 mm, much longer than pedicels, much shorter than calyx.

1–3 mm, usually obscured by bracts;

involucellar bractlets 3, 2–7 mm, shorter than calyx.

bisexual;

calyx 8–10 mm, stellate-puberulent, hairs longest at margins;

petals pale lavender, sometimes lightly pale-veined, 16–17 mm;

staminal column 6–7 mm, hairy;

anthers white to pale yellow;

stigmas usually 6.

1.5–2 mm.

5–7 mm diam.;

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