Flora of North America species comparison

slender, 0.2-0.8 mm thick.

not thickened basally, glabrous or somewhat canescent proximally.

erect or ascending, 5-19 cm, sparsely pilose, each with 1-4 flowers.

erect or ascending, rooting at proximal nodes, glabrous or sparsely hirsute.

persistent, blades reniform or semicircular, undivided or some 3-parted, 1.4-2.1 × 1.7-2.8 cm, base cordate or truncate, margins crenate with more than 5 crenae, apex rounded.

lanceolate, 5.9-12.2 × 1.1-2.4 cm, base rounded-obtuse to acuminate, margins denticulate, apex acuminate.

bracts linear or lanceolate.

pedicels pilose, sometimes sparsely so;

receptacle hispid;

sepals 4-6 × 2-3 mm, abaxially pilose, hairs colorless;

petals 5, 4-5 × 2-4 mm;

nectary scale glabrous.

receptacle glabrous;

sepals 5, spreading or sometimes reflexed from base, 3-5 × 2-3 mm, glabrous;

petals 5, 5-8 × 2-3 mm;

nectary scales glabrous.

ovoid to cylindric, 4-7 × 4-6 mm;

achenes 1.6-1.8 × 1.2-1.4 mm, glabrous;

beak lance-subulate, curved, 0.4-0.6 mm.

short-ovoid to depressed-globose, 5-7 × 4-8 mm;

achenes 1.8 × 1.2-1.4 mm, glabrous;

beak lanceolate, straight, 0.6-1.2 mm.

= 32.