Flora of North America species comparison

erect, usually reddish, sparsely stellate-hairy, distally with hairs tufted, not appressed, 0.5–1.2 mm.

stipules lanceolate, 2–4 × 1–1.5 mm;

petiole 1–3 cm, to 1/2–2 1/2 times as long as blade;

blade reniform to flabelliform, rounded, usually truncate or with wide sinus, unlobed or very shallowly incised, (1–)2–4 × 1–2.7 cm, margins coarsely crenate, surfaces stellate-hairy.

open, spiciform in age, branched or unbranched, 10+-flowered, 10–20 cm, flowers evenly spaced, proximalmost often solitary, axillary;

bracts (1 or)2, distinct, flat or cupped, distalmost undivided or 2-fid, proximal distinct to base, lanceolate to narrowly oblong, 2–5 × 0.5–1 mm, shorter or longer than pedicels, shorter than calyx.

1–3(–5) mm, usually not obscured by bracts;

involucellar bractlets 3, (2–)3–4 mm, shorter than calyx.

bisexual, probably unisexual and pistillate also, plants gynodioecious;

calyx 6–7 mm, densely stellate-puberulent, hair length uniform;

petals pink or pale lavender, (5–)11–14 mm, pistillate smaller;

staminal column 4–5 mm, hairy;

anthers white;

stigmas (4–)7.

1–1.5 mm.

5–6 mm diam.;

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