Flora of North America species comparison

erect, green, stellate-hairy, hairs appressed, moderately dense, uniform, 0.2–0.5 mm.

stipules wide-lanceolate, 3 × 1.3 mm;

petioles of midstem leaves 0.6–2 cm, 1/2 times to as long as or longer than blade;

blade broadly flabelliform, usually truncate, sometimes wide-cuneate, unlobed, 0.6–1.5 × 0.7–2.2 cm, margins coarsely crenate, surfaces tufted-stellate-hairy.

open, not spiciform, unbranched, to 10 cm, to 10-flowered, proximal flowers solitary, axillary;

bracts 2 in proximal flowers, 1 in distal flowers, distinct, oblong, narrow, cupped, 3 × 1.2 mm, narrowest at base, longer than pedicels, much shorter than calyx.

2 mm, usually not obscured by bracts;

involucellar bractlets 3, oblong, 3 mm, 1/2 as long as calyx.

bisexual;

calyx 4–5 mm, to 5.5 mm in fruit, densely stellate-puberulent, hairs 0.1–0.6 mm diam.;

petals pale pink, slightly pale-veined, 8–10 mm;

staminal column 5 mm, minutely puberulent;

anthers white;

stigmas (4–)6 or 7.

1–1.5 mm.

4–5 mm diam.;

mericarps usually (4–)6 or 7, 1.5–2 mm, side walls smooth, back and margins with 2–5 corrugations.