Flora of North America species comparison

slender, 0.2-0.8 mm thick.

dimorphic, flowering stems erect or ascending, stolons prostrate, rooting nodally, glabrous or sparsely hirsute, not bulbous-based.

erect or nearly erect, 10-50 cm, glabrous, each with 9-40 flowers.

simple and undivided, blades oblong to cordate or circular, 0.7-3.8 × 0.8-3.2 cm, base rounded to cordate, margins crenate or crenate-serrate, apex rounded.

persistent, blades reniform, outer undivided, inner 3-lobed to 3-foliolate, 1-3.5 × 1.5-4.5 cm, base truncate or cordate, margins crenate, apex rounded or obtuse.

receptacle hispid or glabrous;

sepals spreading, 2.5-6 × 1.5-3 mm, glabrous;

petals 5, yellow, 2-7 × 1-3 mm.

pedicels pubescent or glabrous;

receptacle sparsely pilose;

sepals 2-3 × 1-2 mm, abaxially sparsely hispid, hairs colorless;

petals 5, 1-2 × 0.5-1 mm;

nectary scale glabrous.

long-ovoid or cylindric, 6-12 × 4-5(-9) mm;

achenes 1-1.4(-2.2) × 0.8-1.2 mm, glabrous;

beak persistent, conic, straight, 0.1-0.2 mm.

globose to ovoid, 3-7 × 3-5 mm;

achenes 1.5-2 × 1.4-1.8 mm, glabrous;

beak slender, strongly curved, 0.6-1 mm.

roots absent.

= 16.

= 16.