Flora of North America species comparison

always both filiform and tuberous on same stem.

thickened basally, glabrous.

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

prostrate, sometimes rooting nodally, glabrous.

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.

narrowly to broadly ovate, 1.2-4 × 0.7-2 cm, base rounded, truncate or sometimes obtuse, margins entire or denticulate, apex obtuse or acute.

bracts ovate or sometimes 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 reflexed from near base, 2-4 × 1-3 mm, glabrous;

petals 5-6, 4-6 × 2-4 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.

hemispheric, 2-3 × 3-4 mm;

achenes 1.2-2 × 1.2-1.4 mm, glabrous;

beak lanceolate to subulate, straight or curved, 0.6-0.8 mm.

= 32.