Flora of North America species comparison

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

reclining or erect, glabrous or sparsely pilose.

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.

receptacle hispid or glabrous;

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

petals 5, yellow, 2-7 × 1-3 mm.

pedicellate;

receptacle hispid;

sepals 5, reflexed, 4-7 × 2-3 mm, sparsely bristly;

petals 5, 4-8 × 2-4.5 mm.

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, 13-16 × 13-16 mm;

achenes 10-20 per head, 5-5.5 × 3-3.5 mm, faces covered with long spines, glabrous, margin smooth;

beak lanceolate, curved, 2-2.5 mm.

roots absent.

and lower cauline leaf blades broadly cordate to reniform or semicircular, undivided or 3-lobed, 2-5 × 3-6.5 cm, base rounded to cordate, margins coarsely crenate, apex rounded.

= 16.