Flora of North America species comparison

slender, 0.8-1.4 mm thick.

not thickened basally, glabrous.

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

erect or ascending, rooting at most proximal nodes, 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.

ovate or lanceolate, 1.2-4.2 × 0.5-1.2 cm, base acute to truncate, margins entire or denticulate, apex acuminate to rounded.

bracts linear to lanceolate or oblanceolate.

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 4-5, spreading or reflexed from base, 1.5-3 × 1-1.5 mm, glabrous or sparsely hirsute;

petals 1-3, 1.5-2 × 0.5-1 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 to cylindric, 2-8 × 2-3 mm;

achenes 1-1.2 × 0.6-0.8 mm, ± tuberculate, glabrous;

beak absent or nearly so, to 0.1 mm.

n = 16.