Flora of North America species comparison

spreading to erect, 0.1–0.4 dm, lengths 1–2 times basal leaves.

petiole 1–3.5 cm, long hairs ± abundant, 0.5–1.5 mm, short hairs absent or sparse, rarely common;

leaflets 0.2–1 cm, lobes oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, (0.5–)1–2 mm wide, longs hairs ± abundant, short hairs absent or sparse, glands sparse to abundant.

not in ranks, ternate, 1–2 cm;

stipules: apex broadly acute;

petiole 0.7–3 cm, long hairs sparse to abundant, spreading to subappresed, 0.2–2 mm, weak, glands sparse to common;

leaflets 3, central obovate, 0.5–1.3 × 0.2–1 cm, petiolule 0–1 mm, margins flat to ± revolute, not lobed, distal ± 2/3 evenly incised ± 1/2 to midvein, teeth 2–4(–5) per side, surfaces similar, green, hairs ± abundant (or nearly absent adaxially), 0.5–1 mm, glands sparse to common.

1(–2)-flowered.

straight, 0.5–3 cm, not much longer in fruit than in flower.

epicalyx bractlets broadly lanceolate to elliptic, 1.5–4(–5) × (0.4–)0.8–1.3 mm;

sepals 2–4(–5) mm, apex ± acute;

petals (3–)4–6 × (2–)3–5 mm;

filaments 1–2(–2.5) mm, anthers 0.4–0.6 mm;

carpels 20–50.

epicalyx bractlets oblong to elliptic, (1.8–)2–2.5(–3) × 0.7–1.2(–1.4) mm, ± equal to sepals, margins flat to ± revolute;

hypanthium (4–)5–7 mm diam.;

sepals (1.8–)2–2.5(–3) mm, apex broadly acute;

petals yellow, 2–3 × 2–3 mm;

filaments 0.5–1 mm, anthers 0.4–0.6 mm;

carpels 20–30, styles columnar-tapered, sometimes ± papillate-swollen in proximal 1/3–1/2, 0.8–1 mm.

0.9–1.2 mm.

1–1.3 mm.

= 49.