Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent or prostrate to ascending, base often rooting, glabrous or short stellate-hairy or sparsely bristly.

mostly cauline;

stipules purplish, oblong to ovate-lanceolate or ovate, 3–8 × 1–2.5 mm;

proximalmost petiole 5–8(–15) cm, 3–4 times as long as blade, reduced distally to 1/2 times as long as blade, distalmost leaves subsessile;

cauline blades 1.5–3(–4) cm wide, proximalmost reniform, unlobed, 1–2(–2.5) cm wide, subcordate to cuneate-based distally, margins usually coarsely crenate, surfaces sparsely short-hirsute to subglabrate, distal usually unlobed, rarely very shallowly 7–9-lobed.

open, branched or not, calyces not overlapping except sometimes in bud, not congested in fruit, usually 2–10-flowered, 7–15 cm, elongated in age, 2–5 flowers usually open at same time, proximal flowers in axils of reduced leaves;

bracts lanceolate to ovate, usually 2-fid or deeply 2-lobed, distal usually 2-fid, proximal separated to base and often with leaf remnant between, 3–4 mm, usually equaling to much shorter than pedicels, much shorter than calyx.

sometimes recurved, (2–)3–10(–30) mm.

calyx purplish, 7–11 mm, sparsely stellate-puberulent with some coarser bristles;

petals bright pinkish rose, pale-veined, pistillate 8–11 mm, bisexual 11–19(–25) mm;

staminal column 4–5 mm;

anthers white;

stigmas 6–8.

1.5–2 mm.

4–5 mm diam.;

mericarps 6–8, 3–3.5 mm, sparsely glandular-puberulent on top and back, prominently reticulate-veined-pitted, mucro 0.5 mm.

= 20.