Flora of North America species comparison

slender or fusiform-thickened basally, glabrous.

fleshy and somewhat tuberous.

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

erect or decumbent, not rooting nodally, hirsute to nearly glabrous, base not bulbous.

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.

blades ovate to deltate in outline, 3(-5)-foliolate, 2.5-14.9 × 2.3-19.9 cm, leaflets 1-2x-lobed or -parted, ultimate segments narrowly oblong to elliptic or lanceolate, margins toothed, apex narrowly acute to rounded-acute.

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.

receptacle hispid;

sepals reflexed 1-2 mm above base, 5-10 × 3-5 mm, hispid;

petals 11-16, yellow, 8-21 × 2-5 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.

globose to ovoid, 6-13 × 7-9 mm;

achenes 2.4-3.4 × 2-2.4 mm, glabrous, margin forming rib or narrow wing 0.1-0.4 mm wide;

beak filiform from deltate base, straight, 1.8-2.5 mm, filiform tip often deciduous, leaving 1-1.2 mm deltate beak.