Flora of North America species comparison

never tuberous.

slender, 0.6-1.2 mm thick.

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

erect, 5-33 cm, pilose or glabrous, each with 3-7 flowers.

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.

persistent, blades ovate, obovate or orbiculate, rarely reniform, undivided or innermost with 2 clefts or partings near apex, 1-3.7 × 1.1-3.5 cm, base acute to rounded, margins entire, apex rounded.

receptacle pubescent;

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

petals 5, yellow, 9–13 × 8–11 mm.

pedicels appressed-pubescent;

receptacle pilose or glabrous;

sepals 3-5 × 2-3 mm, abaxially pilose, hairs colorless;

petals 5, 4-9 × 2-5 mm;

nectary scale 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.

cylindric, 7-17 × 5-8 mm;

achenes 1.5-2 × 1.3-1.8 mm, canescent or glabrous;

beak subulate, straight or hooked, 0.4-2 mm.