Flora of North America species comparison

5-30(-35) cm, from rhizomes, rhizomes horizontal.

20-30 cm, from tubers, tubers ±vertical.

0-1, ternate;

petiole 4-20 cm;

terminal leaflet sessile to petiolulate, oblanceolate to rhombic, oblong, or ovate, 1-5(-6) × 0.7-2.5(-3.5) cm, base narrowly cuneate, margins sharply serrate on distal 1/2(-2/3), apex acuminate to acute, surfaces strigose to nearly glabrous;

lateral leaflets unlobed or 1x-lobed; ultimate lobes 0.4-10 mm wide.

4-10, 2-3-ternate or irregularly so;

petiole 5-10 cm;

terminal leaflet petiolulate, obovate, 1.2-1.8(-20) × ca. 1.5(-2.5) cm, base narrowly cuneate, margins coarsely serrate to nearly incised on distal 1/2, ciliate or not, apex broadly acute, surfaces nearly glabrous;

lateral leaflets 1-2x-lobed or -parted; ultimate lobes 2-5 mm wide.

1-flowered;

peduncle proximally glabrous, distally villous to pilose;

involucral bracts 3, 1-tiered, ternate, ±similar to basal leaves, bases distinct;

terminal leaflet sessile to petiolulate, oblanceolate to rhombic, oblong, or ovate, 1-8 × 0.8-3(-3.5) cm, bases narrowly cuneate to cuneate, margins crenate to serrate on distal 1/2(-2/3), apex acuminate to acute, surfaces abaxially glabrous or strigose, adaxially nearly glabrous to strigose;

lateral leaflets unlobed or 1x-lobed; ultimate lobes 0.5-10 mm wide.

(1-)2-3-flowered cymes;

peduncle proximally nearly glabrous, distally downy;

involucral bracts primarily 3, (1-)2-tiered, simple, dissimilar to basal leaves, obtriangular, 3-cleft to pinnatifid, 2-5 cm, bases clasping, ±connate, margins incised throughout, apex acuminate, surfaces appressed-pilose;

segments primarily 3, linear;

lateral segments unlobed or 1x-lobed; ultimate segments 1-2 mm wide.

sepals 5-7(-8), blue to purple, reddish, or purple to pink (rarely nearly white or abaxially reddish, violet, or marginally purple, adaxially white), ovate, oblong, or elliptic, 10-20 × 5-8(-10) mm, glabrous;

stamens 30-75.

sepals 7-11, greenish white to abaxially reddish, oblong, 6-12(-14) × (2-)3-4.5 mm, abaxially hairy, adaxially glabrous;

stamens 35-55.

body oblong to ellipsoid, 4-5 × 1.5-2 mm, not winged, puberulous to pilose, rarely glabrous;

beak ±straight, (0.5-)1-1.5 mm, glabrous.

body ovate, flat, not winged, densely white-villous (with long tuft of hairs at base);

beak ±straight, ca. 1 mm, hidden in achene indument, white-tomentose, not plumose.

nearly spheric;

pedicel (1.5-)2-5(-7) cm.

oblong-ellipsoid;

pedicel 10-18 cm.