Flora of North America species comparison

always both filiform and tuberous on same stem.

not thickened basally, glabrous or somewhat canescent proximally.

erect or ascending, never rooting nodally, strigose or spreading-strigose, base not bulbous.

erect or ascending, rooting at proximal nodes, glabrous or sparsely hirsute.

blades ovate to broadly ovate in outline, 3-5-foliolate, 2.1-4.7 × 1.9-4.5 cm, leaflets undivided or 1x-lobed or -parted, ultimate segments oblanceolate or obovate, margins entire or with few teeth, apex rounded-acute to rounded-obtuse.

lanceolate, 5.9-12.2 × 1.1-2.4 cm, base rounded-obtuse to acuminate, margins denticulate, apex acuminate.

bracts linear or lanceolate.

receptacle hispid or glabrous;

sepals spreading or sometimes reflexed from base, 5-7 × 2-3 mm, hispid or glabrous;

petals 5(-7), yellow, 8-14 × 3-6 mm.

receptacle glabrous;

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

petals 5, 5-8 × 2-3 mm;

nectary scales glabrous.

globose or ovoid, 5-9 × 5-8 mm;

achenes 2-2.8 × 1.8-2.2 mm, glabrous, margin forming narrow rib 0.1-0.2 mm wide;

beak persistent, filiform, straight, 1.2-2.8 mm.

short-ovoid to depressed-globose, 5-7 × 4-8 mm;

achenes 1.8 × 1.2-1.4 mm, glabrous;

beak lanceolate, straight, 0.6-1.2 mm.

= 32.