Flora of North America species comparison

never tuberous.

slender, 0.4-0.8 mm thick.

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

erect from short caudices, 4-22 cm, glabrous or sparsely pilose, each with 1 flower.

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 or deciduous, blades reniform, 3-parted, 0.6-2 × 1.3-3 cm, at least lateral segments again lobed or margins toothed, base truncate or cordate, apices of segments rounded-apiculate.

receptacle pubescent;

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

petals 5, yellow, 9–13 × 8–11 mm.

pedicels glabrous or brown-pilose;

receptacle glabrous;

sepals 6-8 × 3-5 mm, abaxially densely brown-hispid;

petals 5(-6), 8-11 × 7-12 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 or ovoid-cylindric, 7-14 × 5-6 mm;

achenes 1.5-2.2 × 1.2-1.6 mm, glabrous;

beak slender, straight, 1-2 mm.

= 48.