Flora of North America species comparison

slender, 0.8-1.4 mm thick.

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

erect, sparsely pilose.

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.

blades reniform to semicircular, undivided or shallowly 3-lobed, 2.5-5 × 3-7 cm, base truncate to nearly cordate, margins crenate or dentate, apex rounded or obtuse.

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.

pedicellate;

receptacle hispid;

sepals 5, reflexed 1 mm from base, 3-5 × 1-2 mm, hispid;

petals 5, 4-5 × 2-3.5 mm.

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 to globose, 4 × 6 mm;

achenes 15-20 per head, 2.5-3 × 2-2.5 mm, faces covered with high sharp tubercles or low spines, glabrous, margin smooth;

beak deltate, straight, 0.8-1 mm.

n = 16.