Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate to decumbent, 0.2–0.6(–1) dm.

pendent or prostrate to ascending, (0.2–)0.5–1.6(–3) dm.

tightly cylindric, 1–4(–5) cm; sheathing base mostly not strigose abaxially;

petiole 0.3–2 cm, hairs 0.5–1 mm;

lateral leaflets 5–10(–12) per side, ± overlapping, ± flabellate, 1–2.5 mm, incised to base or nearly so into 3–5 obovate to oval lobes, apex sometimes ± setose, surfaces loosely long-strigose, sparsely glandular;

terminal leaflets indistinct.

planar, 2–15(–20) cm; sheathing base usually not strigose abaxially;

petiole 3–10 cm;

lateral leaflets (2–)3–4(–5) per side, separate, broadly ovate or obovate to orbiculate, (2–)5–15(–18) mm, incised 1/4–3/4 to base into (3–)7–11 ± ovate teeth, apex not setose, surfaces ± sparsely short-pilose, ± glandular;

terminal leaflets ± distinct.

1(–2);

blade vestigial.

1–3;

blade well developed.

1–10-flowered, ± congested, 0.5–1.5 cm diam.

(1–)5–30(–150)-flowered, open, 0.5–14 cm diam.

3–7(–10) mm.

5–30 mm.

6–9 mm diam.;

epicalyx bractlets 5, lanceolate to narrowly oblong or narrowly ovate, 0.8–1.3 mm;

hypanthium shallowly cupulate, ± 1 × 2–3(–4) mm;

sepals 1.5–2.3 mm, ± acute;

petals yellow, oblanceolate to spatulate, 2–3.2 mm;

stamens 5, filaments 0.9–1.2 mm, anthers yellow, oblong, 0.7–0.9 mm;

carpels 6–10, styles 1–1.5 mm.

6–12 mm diam.;

epicalyx bractlets 0(–3), lanceolate, 0.9–1.8 mm;

hypanthium turbinate or campanulate, 1.5–3(–5) × 1–3(–4) mm;

sepals 2–4(–5) mm, acute;

petals yellow or white, oblanceolate to elliptic or obovate, (1.6–)2–4 mm;

stamens 5, filaments 0.8–1.3 mm, anthers ± yellow, oblong to narrowly ovate, 0.6–1.5 mm;

carpels (2–)6–10(–13), atop a stipelike torus, styles 0.9–1.8 mm.

greenish cream to light brown, 1.4–1.8(–2) mm, smooth, not carunculate.

greenish white to light tan, 1.2–2 mm, faintly rugose, ± carunculate.