Flora of North America species comparison

not thickened basally, canescent.

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

erect or ascending, not rooting nodally, glabrous.

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.

narrowly elliptic to linear, 2.5-4.8 × 0.2-0.9 cm, base narrowly acuminate, margins entire, apex acute to acuminate.

bracts lanceolate to linear.

receptacle hispid or glabrous;

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

petals 5, yellow, 2-7 × 1-3 mm.

receptacle glabrous;

sepals 5, spreading or reflexed from base, 3-5 × 1-2 mm, glabrous;

petals 5, 4-6 × 1-2 mm;

nectary scales 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.

hemispheric, 2-4 × 3-5 mm;

achenes 1-1.4 × 0.8 mm, glabrous;

beak subulate, straight, 0.2-0.4 mm.

roots absent.

= 16.