Flora of North America species comparison

single, erect, sometimes branched distally, solid, short-stellate-puberulent and long, soft bristly-hairy, distally with multicellular trichomes intermixed, hairs erect.

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

cauline, 3–5 per stem;

stipules linear-filiform, undivided or rarely few-divided in robust plants, 3–5 × 1 mm;

petiole 2–4.5(–6) cm, usually 1–2 times as long as blade;

blades: proximalmost orbiculate, unlobed, 1–2.5 × 1–2.5 cm, base cordate with narrow sinus, margins crenate, apex rounded;

other proximals rounded, unlobed or shallowly palmately 7–9-lobed, 2.5–4.8(–6) × 2.5–4.8(–6) cm, margins coarsely crenate, sinus wide to narrow, surfaces stellate-hairy;

distals gradually reduced, orbiculate, more deeply 3-lobed, 1.5–2.5 × 1.5–2.5 cm, lobes obovate, apically widened to nearly truncate and narrowed to base, margins entire, apex 2–5-toothed, teeth subequal.

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.

erect to ascending, usually open, calyces not overlapping except possibly in bud, unbranched or infrequently branched, 5–12-flowered per branch, not especially elongate, usually 1-sided, 5–10 cm, to 5–15 cm in fruit, 1/2 times plant height;

bracts linear-filiform, undivided or rarely few-divided in robust plants, (3–)7–11 mm, longer than pedicels, usually much shorter than calyx, not involucrelike, densely stellate-hairy and pilose-hirsute.

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.

2–4 mm, to 5–6 mm in fruit;

involucellar bractlets absent.

2–3 mm;

involucellar bractlets absent.

bisexual;

calyx 8–10 mm, to 11–14 mm in fruit, lobe base within with conspicuous, purplish spot 1–2 mm wide, hairy, hairs glandular and non-glandular, multicellular as in inflorescence;

petals dark pink, without pale veins, with or without reddish basal spot, 10–22(–26) mm;

filaments connate to apex of tube;

staminal column 3–5 mm, hairy, hairs relatively long, simple;

anthers white;

stigmas 4 or 5.

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.

1.5–2 mm.

1.5–2 mm.

5–7 mm diam.;

mericarps 4 or 5, usually tinted pink when fresh, 3–4 mm, usually glabrous, back reticulate-veined, pitted, with prominent midvein, mucro absent but with 1–5 minute bristles in its place.

8–9 mm diam.;

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