Flora of North America species comparison

never tuberous.

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

decumbent, sparsely pilose.

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.

sessile;

receptacle glabrous or pilose;

sepals 3, spreading, 1-2 × 0.5-1 mm, hirsute;

petals 3, 1-2 × 0.5-0.8 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, 2-2.5 × 3-3.5 mm;

achenes 10-15 per head, 1.3-1.7 × 1-1.3 mm, faces and proximal margin finely papillate, each papilla crowned with hooked bristle, otherwise glabrous;

beak semicircular to deltate, curved, 0.2-0.5 mm.

and lower cauline leaf blades reniform, 3-parted, 0.8-1.7 × 1.2-2 cm, segment base cordate, margins dentate or lobulate, apex rounded-obtuse.