Flora of North America species comparison

erect to ascending, base decumbent, often rooting, short-hirsute and/or stellate-hairy or glabrous proximally, usually more sparsely, softly stellate-hairy distally.

basal and cauline, proximal clustered, distal well-spaced;

stipules ovate to lanceolate, 5–12 × 1.5–3(–5) mm;

petioles of basal leaves 15–20(–25) cm, proximalmost often 8–9 times as long as blade, much reduced distally to 1/2 times as long as blade;

blade 2–7 cm wide, surfaces usually sparsely stellate-hairy or hirsute, more densely so abaxially;

basal rounded to reniform, usually shallowly 7-lobed, margins crenate, distal reniform, deeply, ternately lobed and dissected, lobes wide-linear, 1–2 mm wide, total segments usually 13+.

dense, becoming open and elongate, usually unbranched, often 20+-flowered, 15+ cm in age, proximal flowers and fruits spaced 1+ cm apart;

proximal bracts leaflike, dissected to base, shorter than pedicels, distal bracts linear to ovate, undivided or 2-fid, (2–)4–5 mm, longer than pedicels.

5–15(–30) mm on proximalmost flowers, distal pedicels 2–5 mm.

calyx 7–11 mm, sparsely stellate-puberulent and bristly, marginal and vein hairs longest;

petals usually light pink to dark rose, rarely white, usually conspicuously pale-veined especially when dried, pistillate darker, 9–15 mm, bisexual (12–)15–25 mm;

staminal column 6–7 mm;

anthers white to pale yellow;

stigmas (6 or)7 or 8(or -9).

2–3 mm.

5–7 mm diam.;

mericarps (6 or)7 or 8(or 9), 2.5–3.5 mm, glandular-puberulent, usually prominently reticulate-veined-pitted, mucro 0.5 mm.

= 20, 40.