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 from short caudices, not rooting nodally, glabrous, not bulbous-based.

basal leaf blades ovate to semicircular in outline, ternately or pinnately 2x-compound, 2.4-8.2 × 2-8.5 cm, leaflets parted and again lobed, ultimate segments elliptic to linear, margins entire (or occasionally a lobe reduced to tooth), apex acuminate to rounded.

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.

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 spreading or reflexed from base, 3-6 × 1-3 mm, glabrous;

petals (0-)5-6, yellow, 3-8 × 1-3 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, 4-5 × 6-7 mm;

achenes 2.2-3.6 × 1.2-1.8 mm, glabrous;

beak filiform, strongly reflexed from base, 0.8-1.5 mm, brittle, often broken.

n = 16.

roots absent.

= 32.