Flora of North America species comparison

single, erect, usually branched distally with erect branches, solid, not glaucous, proximally glabrate, distally usually softly, densely bristly-hirsute, rarely glabrescent.

clustered, erect to slightly ascending, base erect to decumbent-ascending, usually unbranched, (plants nearly scapose), solid, long-bristly with hairs often 2 mm, sometimes also stellate-hairy near base, usually becoming finely hispid distally.

cauline;

stipules inconspicuous or deciduous, purplish, lanceolate to subulate, 3–12 × 1–2 mm;

petiole 2–7 cm, longest on proximal leaves and gradually reduced distally, proximalmost to 3 times as long as blade, reduced distally to 1/2 times or as long as blade;

blades: proximalmost early-deciduous, orbiculate, unlobed, 1–2.5 × 1–2.5 cm, base cordate, margins crenate, surfaces ± bristly, distal deeply palmately 5–7(–9)-lobed to base, 3–8 × 3–8 cm, lobes linear, margins entire, apex acute, surfaces: abaxially younger blades hirsute, older glabrous except on veins.

mostly basal, cauline 1–3;

stipules lanceolate, 3–5 × 1 mm;

petiole 6–9 cm, basal 2 times blade length, cauline 1/2 times blade length;

blade usually orbiculate, 2–5(–6) × 2–5(–6) cm, base cordate, apex rounded, basal deeply dissected into 3–7 primary lobes, each less deeply incised and somewhat ternate, ultimate segments linear to oblong-elliptic, margins entire, distal blades repeatedly dissected with linear segments, surfaces densely hirtellous and stellate-hairy abaxially, less hairy with mostly simple hairs adaxially.

erect, spiciform, dense, calyces usually overlapping, ca. 20–30-flowered, proximalmost 1 or 2 flowers in leaf axils, not elongate, not 1-sided, 2–5 cm, to 20 cm in fruit;

bracts inconspicuous or deciduous, often purplish, linear, 4–8 × to 2 mm, slightly longer than pedicels, usually 2-fid, sometimes undivided.

erect or ascending, spiciform, initially dense, later open, calyces not conspicuously overlapping except sometimes in fruit, usually unbranched, usually 20+-flowered, proximal flowers remotely, evenly spaced, elongated in fruit, often 1-sided if ascending and not 1-sided when strictly erect, 15–30(–40) cm, elongating with fruits spaced, axis often wine-red;

bracts linear, usually undivided, 2.5–4 mm, usually ± equaling or longer than pedicels.

2–3 mm;

involucellar bractlets absent.

1–2(–3) mm;

involucellar bractlets absent.

bisexual, less often unisexual and pistillate and plants gynodioecious;

calyx 8–10 mm, to 10–13 mm in fruit, prominently tawny-hirsute and densely stellate-canescent;

petals pale pink to dark rose-pink or rose-purple, often with paler veins, 13–25 mm;

stamens: filaments connate to apex, funnel-like, with rim to which unstalked anthers attach;

staminal column 6–7 mm, hairy;

anthers white;

stigmas 5 or 6.

bisexual or unisexual and pistillate, similar in size, plants gynodioecious;

calyx usually wine-red, 4–5(–7) mm, usually not accrescent, finely stellate-puberulent, marginal hairs longer and often simple;

petals dark rose-pink, sometimes pale-veined, 7–10(–12) mm;

staminal column 3–5 mm, sparsely hairy;

anthers white;

stigmas 5–8.

1.5–2 mm.

2 mm.

8–9 mm diam.;

mericarps 5 or 6, 3–4 mm, back and sides reticulate-veined and pitted, wrinkled, ± stellate-puberulent, mucro 1 mm.

5 mm diam.;

mericarps 5–8, somewhat inflated, 2.5 mm, glabrous, smooth, back lightly grooved, not reticulate-veined or pitted, mucro 0.2–0.3 mm.

= 20.