Flora of North America species comparison

never tuberous.

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

prostrate, buried, rooting nodally, glabrous, not bulbous-based.

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.

reniform, deeply 3-parted, 1.1-2.6 × 1.6-4.3 cm, segments undivided or 1x cleft, margins crenate, apex rounded.

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 spreading or reflexed from base, 4-7 × 2-5 mm, glabrous;

petals yellow, 5-6 × 2-3 mm.

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 hemispheric, 5-7 × 8-10 mm;

achenes 3.8-4.2 × 2-2.2 mm, glabrous;

beak persistent, lanceolate, curved, tip hooked, 1.6-2.4 mm.

roots absent.

= 16.