Flora of North America species comparison

erect, pilose.

pedicellate;

receptacle glabrous;

sepals 5, spreading, 1.1-1.8 × 0.5-1 mm, pilose;

petals 0-5, 1.3-2 × 0.3-0.7 mm.

discoid, 4-6 × 3 mm;

achenes 4-9 per head, 1.7-2.3 × 1.7-2 mm, faces and margin papillose, each papilla crowned with hooked bristle, otherwise glabrous;

beak lanceolate, hooked distally, 0.5-0.7 mm.

and lower cauline leaf blades cordate-reniform, deeply 3-parted, 0.6-2.3 × 1.2-3.5 cm, segments undivided or 2-4-lobed, base shallowly cordate, margins entire or 2-4-dentate, apex of ultimate segments acute.