Flora of North America species comparison

slender or fusiform-thickened basally, glabrous.

slender, 0.5-1 mm thick.

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

erect or decumbent from short caudices, 3-22 cm, glabrous, each with 1-5 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 cordate or reniform, 3-parted, 0.5-1.8 × 0.8-3 cm, segments again lobed, base truncate or nearly cordate, apices of segments rounded.

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 pubescent or glabrous;

receptacle glabrous or pubescent;

sepals 3-5 × 1-4 mm, pubescent or glabrous;

petals 5, 3-6 × 1-5 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.

cylindric to ovoid-cylindric, 4-13 × 4-6 mm;

achenes 1.2-2.4 × 0.8-2 mm, glabrous;

beak subulate, curved or hooked, 0.4-0.8 mm.

= 16.