Flora of North America species comparison

slender or fusiform-thickened basally, glabrous.

filiform, sometimes enlarged basally, 0.5-1.5 mm thick.

erect or ascending, not rooting nodally, glabrous or hirsute.

erect or nearly erect, 10-60 cm, glabrous, each with 3-50 flowers.

basal leaf blades with base acute;

proximal cauline leaf blades lanceolate, ovate, or elliptic, 1.8-14.1 × 0.7-2.9 cm, base acuminate to rounded, margins entire or serrulate, apex obtuse to acuminate.

persistent, blades reniform or orbiculate, undivided or sometimes innermost 3-parted or -foliate, 1.4-4.2 × 2-5.2 cm, base shallowly to deeply cordate, margins crenulate to crenate-lobulate, apex rounded to rounded-obtuse.

bracts lanceolate.

receptacle glabrous;

sepals 5, spreading or reflexed from base, 2-6 × 1-4 mm, glabrous or hirsute;

petals 5-12, 5-14 × 2-8 mm;

nectary scales glabrous.

pedicels glabrous or nearly so;

receptacle sparsely to very sparsely pilose;

sepals 2.5-4 × 1-2 mm, abaxially glabrous;

petals 5, 1.5-3.5 × 1-2 mm;

nectary scale glabrous.

hemispheric to globose, 3-7 × 4-8 mm;

achenes 1.6-2.8 × 1.2-2 mm, glabrous or rarely hispid;

beak lance-subulate, straight or weakly curved, 0.4-1.2 mm.

ovoid, 3-6 × 2.5-5 mm;

achenes 1.4-1.6 × 1-1.5 mm, glabrous;

beak subulate, curved, 0.1-0.2 mm.

= 16.