Flora of North America species comparison

slender or fusiform-thickened basally, glabrous.

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

reclining or erect, glabrous or sparsely 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.

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.

pedicellate;

receptacle hispid;

sepals 5, reflexed, 4-7 × 2-3 mm, sparsely bristly;

petals 5, 4-8 × 2-4.5 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, 13-16 × 13-16 mm;

achenes 10-20 per head, 5-5.5 × 3-3.5 mm, faces covered with long spines, glabrous, margin smooth;

beak lanceolate, curved, 2-2.5 mm.

and lower cauline leaf blades broadly cordate to reniform or semicircular, undivided or 3-lobed, 2-5 × 3-6.5 cm, base rounded to cordate, margins coarsely crenate, apex rounded.