Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate, indument mixture of stellate and appressed, sublepidote hairs.

prostrate, trailing, invested with silvery-white, lepidote scales.

petiole 1/2–1 times as long as blade;

blade ± reniform, 1–3.5 cm, wider than long, base obliquely truncate, margins serrate, apex obtuse or subacute, surfaces densely hairy, hairs appressed, sublepidote and stellate.

petiole to 1/3 as long as blade;

blade narrowly triangular, 1.5–3.5 cm, usually 3–5(–6) times as long as wide, base truncate, margins entire with 2–4 hastate teeth at base, apex acute, surfaces with sparse, silvery-lepidote scales.

long, subequal to subtending petiole;

involucellar bractlets 3, inconspicuous, filiform, or 0.

long, usually shorter than subtending leaves, involucellar bractlets 0.

calyx 8–10 mm, with mixture of stellate and appressed sublepidote hairs, lobes ovate, bases not plicate-overlapping, apex acuminate;

petals pale yellow, sometimes with rose flush on fading, asymmetric, 12–15 mm;

stamens pallid, glabrous, staminal column antheriferous at apex;

style 7–10-branched, pallid, glabrous.

calyx 7–9 mm, silvery-lepidote, lobes cordate-ovate, bases plicate-overlapping, apex acuminate;

petals whitish or pale yellow, sometimes fading rose, asymmetric, 15 mm;

stamens pallid, glabrous, staminal column antheriferous at apex;

style 7- or 8-branched, pallid, glabrous.

7 mm diam. 2n = 22, 32.

5–6 mm diam.