Flora of North America species comparison

never tuberous.

not thickened basally, glabrous.

erect, never rooting nodally, strigose or hirsute, base bulbous and cormlike.

erect to prostrate, usually rooting nodally, glabrous or strigose.

blades ovate to cordate in outline, 3-foliolate, rarely merely deeply divided, 2–5.3 × 2.4–5.4 cm, leaflets 1–2x-lobed, ultimate segments oblong to obovate, margins toothed, apex rounded in outline.

ovate to broadly ovate, 0.8-2.7 × 0.8-1.9 cm, base rounded to weakly cordate, margins entire or dentate, apex rounded or obtuse.

bracts lanceolate to oblanceolate or sometimes ovate.

receptacle pubescent;

sepals reflexed 2–3 mm above base, 6–9 × 2–4 mm, pilose;

petals 5, yellow, 9–13 × 8–11 mm.

receptacle glabrous;

sepals 5, spreading or reflexed from base, 1.5-3 × 1-2 mm, glabrous;

petals 5-6, 3-5 × 1-2 mm;

nectary scales glabrous.

ovoid, 6–9 × 5–7 mm;

achenes 2.2–3.2 × 2.2–2.8 mm, glabrous, margin forming narrow rib 0.1–0.2 mm wide;

beak persistent, lanceolate to deltate, 0.2–0.8 mm, slender tip hooked when present.

hemispheric or globose, 2-4 × 3-4 mm;

achenes 1.2-1.4 × 1-1.2 mm, glabrous;

beak lanceolate to lance-filiform, straight or curved, 0.4-1 mm.