Flora of North America species comparison

tuberous.

erect from short caudices, not rooting nodally, glabrous, not bulbous-based.

erect or decumbent, never rooting nodally, hispid, base not bulbous.

blades circular to reniform in outline, 3-5-parted, 0.8-3.8 × 1.7-6.9 cm, segments again lobed, ultimate segments elliptic or oblong, margins crenate, apex rounded;

cauline leaf 0-1, scalelike.

blades ovate in outline, 3-5-foliolate, 3.8-10 × 2.7-9 cm, leaflets 1x-lobed, ultimate segments narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, margins entire or with few teeth, apex broadly acute to rounded-obtuse.

receptacle glabrous;

sepals spreading, yellow, 7-11 × 4-7 mm, glabrous;

petals 11-15, yellow, 8-12 × 3-5 mm.

receptacle hispid;

sepals spreading or weakly reflexed ca. 1 mm above base, 7-10 × 3-5 mm, hispid;

petals 10-22, yellow, 12-22 × 4-9 mm.

hemispheric or spheric, 7-8 × 9-10 mm;

achenes 2.4-4.6 × 1.2-2.2 mm, glabrous;

beak persistent, filiform, hooked distally, 1-1.8 mm.

globose to cylindric, 8-14 × 8-10 mm;

achenes 2.2-4.2 × 2.8-3.4 mm, glabrous, margin forming narrow rib 0.4-0.6 mm wide;

beak usually persistent, filiform from deltate base, straight, 2-4 mm.

roots absent.

= 16.

= 32.