Flora of North America species comparison

never tuberous.

erect from short caudex or rhizome, never rooting nodally, hispid, strigose, or glabrous, base not bulbous.

erect or ascending, sparsely pilose.

blades pentagonal in outline, deeply 3-5-parted, 1.8-5.2 × 2.7-9.8 cm, segments 1-2x-lobed or -parted, ultimate segments narrowly elliptic or oblong to lanceolate, margins toothed or lobulate, apex acute to rounded.

receptacle glabrous;

sepals spreading, 4-6(-9) × 2-5 mm, hispid;

petals 5, yellow, 8-11(-17) × 7-13 mm.

pedicellate;

receptacle sparsely hispid;

sepals 5, spreading, 4-7 × 1-2 mm, strigose;

petals 5, 5-8 × 2-4 mm.

globose, 5-7(-10) mm wide;

achenes 2-3 × 1.8-2.4 mm, glabrous, margin forming narrow rib 0.1-0.2 mm wide;

beak persistent, deltate, usually with tip short or long, straight or curved, subulate, 0.2-1 mm.

discoid, 8-9 mm across;

achenes 5-8 per head, 4-6.4 × 2.8-4.4 mm, faces and margin covered with long spines, glabrous;

beak lance-subulate, straight, 1.6-3.8 mm.

and lower cauline leaf blades obovate to rhombic in outline, 3-parted or 3(-5)-foliolate, 1.8-5.2 × 1.6-4.2 cm, leaflets oblanceolate or divided into oblanceolate or linear segments, leaflet base narrowly acuminate, margins entire or distally dentate, apex rounded or acuminate.

= 14.