Flora of North America species comparison

never tuberous.

erect or ascending, never rooting nodally, crisped-pilose, base not bulbous.

glabrous.

blade reniform, 0.4-1 × 0.6-1.7 cm, margins shallowly crenate-lobulate, segments rounded.

broadly rhombic to semicircular in outline, 3-parted, 2.8-4.3 × 3-5.5 cm, segments 3-lobed, ultimate segments lanceolate, margins entire or toothed, apex narrowly acute or acuminate.

receptacle glabrous;

sepals reflexed 1 mm above base, 4-6 × 1.5-3 mm, densely pilose;

petals 5, abaxially red, adaxially yellow, 10-12 × 4-6 mm.

receptacle glabrous;

sepals recurved, 1.5-2 × 1-1.5 mm, glabrous;

petals 5, 2-4 × 1-1.5 mm;

style 0.1 mm.

recurved.

of achenes hemispheric, 4-7 × 7-10 mm;

achenes 3.4-4.2 × 2.8-3.2 mm, sometimes basally pilose, margin forming narrow rib 0.1-0.2 mm wide;

beak persistent, lance-subulate, straight or somewhat curved distally, 1.6-2.6 mm.

of achenes globose or depressed-globose, 3-4 × 3-4 mm;

achenes 1.2-1.6 × 1-1.2 mm, glabrous;

beak deciduous, sometimes leaving stub to 0.1 mm.

= 16 (Europe).