Flora of North America species comparison

slender, 0.8-1.4 mm thick.

tuberous, 2.5-5 mm thick.

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

erect, 2.5-7.5 cm, glabrous, each with 1-4 flowers.

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.

persistent, blades obdeltate in outline, 1-2.8 cm, segments 0.2-0.6 cm wide, deeply divided into 3 oblanceolate segments with lateral segments often again lobed or parted, base long-attenuate, margins entire, apex rounded.

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.

pedicels glabrous;

receptacle glabrous or sparsely pilose;

sepals 3-7 × 1.5-3 mm, abaxially glabrous;

petals 5, 6-12 × 2-5 mm;

nectary scale 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.

globose to cylindric, 3.5-8 × 3-7 mm;

achenes 1.1-1.4 × 0.8-1.1 mm, finely pubescent;

beak subulate, straight, 0.2-0.8 mm.

n = 16.