Flora of North America species comparison

slender, 0.8-1.4 mm thick.

thickened basally, glabrous.

erect from large caudices, 9-25 cm, glabrous, each with 1-3 flowers.

prostrate, sometimes rooting nodally, glabrous.

persistent, blades circular to reniform in outline, 2-3x-dissected into linear segments, 0.9-2.5 × 1.1-2.8 cm, base obtuse, margins entire, apices of segments narrowly rounded to acute.

narrowly to broadly ovate, 1.2-4 × 0.7-2 cm, base rounded, truncate or sometimes obtuse, margins entire or denticulate, apex obtuse or acute.

bracts ovate or sometimes lanceolate.

pedicels glabrous;

receptacle glabrous;

sepals 4-11 × 3-7 mm, abaxially sparsely pilose, hairs colorless;

petals 5-10, 8-15 × 8-19 mm;

nectary scale glabrous.

receptacle glabrous;

sepals 5, spreading or reflexed from near base, 2-4 × 1-3 mm, glabrous;

petals 5-6, 4-6 × 2-4 mm;

nectary scales glabrous.

ovoid, 6-12 × 5-9 mm;

achenes 1.8-2.4 × 1-1.4 mm, glabrous or nearly so;

beak subulate, straight, 1.2-1.7 mm.

hemispheric, 2-3 × 3-4 mm;

achenes 1.2-2 × 1.2-1.4 mm, glabrous;

beak lanceolate to subulate, straight or curved, 0.6-0.8 mm.

n = 16.