Flora of North America species comparison

erect, base decumbent, rooting, sometimes reddish tinted distally, usually long-hirsute, sometimes glabrous, hairs simple, 2 mm, slender, soft.

basal and cauline;

proximalmost stipules wide-lanceolate to ovate, 4–5 × 2–3 mm;

proximal petiole 5–20(–30) cm, 3–4 times as long as blade, greatly reduced distally to 1/2–1 times as long as blade;

blade (2–)4–8(–12) cm wide, basal cordate-rounded, unlobed or shallowly lobed, margins coarsely crenate, distal deeply palmately 5–9-lobed, lobes usually 3-toothed to 3-lobed, surfaces coarsely, sparsely stellate-hairy abaxially, hirsute and stellate-puberulent adaxially, distalmost not much reduced, palmately 5–7-divided nearly to base, lobe margins entire.

open and elongate or dense when young, 5–14(–21)-flowered, 15–20 cm, calyces overlapping or not, several flowers often open at same time;

bracts linear, divided nearly to base, (2–)5–7(–9) mm, distal undivided or 2-fid, usually equaling or longer than pedicels, much shorter than calyx.

1–4(–6) mm.

calyx 6.5–10(–12) mm, sparsely stellate-puberulent and hirsute-bristly on margins, longest hairs simple;

petals rose-pink to purplish, pale-veined, usually with pale to white base, 20 mm, pistillate darker and smaller;

staminal column 5–6 mm;

anthers white to pale pink;

stigmas (6 or)7–9.

2 mm.

5–6 mm diam.;

mericarps (6 or)7–9, 3 mm, back glabrous or sparingly glandular-puberulent, slightly reticulate-veined and wrinkled, ridged, back less so, mucro 1 mm.