Flora of North America species comparison

slender or fusiform-thickened basally, glabrous.

often distinctly fusiform-thickened proximally.

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

7-35 cm × 1-3 mm, glabrous or pilose.

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.

blade narrowly lanceolate, 2.7-10.8 × 0.6-1.3 cm, base acuminate, margins entire.

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.

petals 5-6(-8), 10-14 × (3-)5-8 mm.

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.