Flora of North America species comparison

erect or procumbent, base decumbent, usually not rooting, usually coarsely, densely, softly bristly-tomentose or long stellate-hairy, basal hairs 1–2 mm.

basal and cauline;

stipules proximal sometimes purplish, distal green, wide-lanceolate to ovate, 7–8 × 2–4 mm;

petioles of basal leaves 6–15 cm, 2 times as long as blade, reduced distally, much less than 1/2 times as long as blade, distalmost blades subsessile;

blade often reniform, unlobed, 2–6 cm wide, margins crenate, sometimes deeply so, surfaces densely, softly or coarsely bristly-hairy.

spicate to subcapitate, usually dense, unbranched, often 10+-flowered, often 4–7 cm, flowers mostly open at same time and obviously overlapping, rarely not overlapping, proximalmost in axils of reduced leaves, fruits usually spaced and not overlapping on a somewhat elongated axis;

bracts cuneate 2-fid, proximal separated to base, 5 mm, usually equaling or longer than pedicels, margins sometimes toothed.

1–2 mm.

calyx green (without purplish tint), 7–11 mm, densely stellate-puberulent and coarsely bristly, bristles often on swollen pad, hairs at base shorter, denser, marginal hairs longer;

petals pink to rose, usually pale-veined, (10–)23–24 mm;

staminal column 8 mm;

anthers white;

stigmas (6 or)7 or 8.

2–3 mm.

5–7 mm diam.;

mericarps (6 or)7 or 8, 3.5–4 mm, sparsely glandular-puberulent, prominently reticulate-veined, rugose, and pitted, mucro 0.3–0.5(–1) mm.