Flora of North America species comparison

0.2–2.5 dm.

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

palmate, 1.5–9.5 cm;

petiole 1–7 cm, long hairs abundant to dense, spreading to appressed, 1–2 mm, weak to stiff, glands ± abundant;

leaflets 5, central cuneate-elliptic to obovate, 0.5–2.5 × 0.3–1.5 cm, scarcely to distinctly petiolulate, distal 1/3 of margins evenly incised ± 1/4 to midvein, teeth 2–4(–5) per side, surfaces gray-green, long hairs abundant to dense, 1–1.5 mm, glands ± abundant, sometimes obscured.

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.

1–20-flowered.

1(–2)-flowered.

0.5–1.5 cm.

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

epicalyx bractlets lanceolate to ovate-elliptic, 1–3.5 × 1–1.5 mm;

hypanthium 2–4 mm diam.;

sepals 2–5 mm, apex ± acute;

petals ± paler abaxially, bright yellow adaxially, ± obcordate, 3–6 × 2–5 mm;

filaments 1–2 mm, anthers 0.5 mm;

carpels ca. 20, styles (1.2–)1.5–2 mm.

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.

1–1.5 mm, lightly rugose.

1–1.3 mm.

hairs not well differentiated from long hairs, absent or sparse throughout.

= 49.