Flora of North America species comparison

floating or prostrate, glabrous, rooting at proximal nodes.

prostrate, glabrous, rooting nodally.

basal leaves seldom present, cauline leaf blades semicircular to reniform, 1-6x-lobed, parted, or dissected 1.2-7.3 × 1.9-10.8 cm, base truncate or cordate, segment margins entire or crenate, apex rounded to filiform.

basal leaves absent, cauline leaf blades reniform to broadly flabellate, deeply 3-lobed or 3-parted, 0.3-1.2 × 0.5-2.1 cm, base obtuse to cordate, lobes undivided or lateral lobes cleft, terminal segment entire or distally crenulate, apex rounded.

receptacle sparsely hispid;

sepals 5, spreading or weakly reflexed, 5-7 × 3-6 mm, glabrous;

petals 5-6(-14), 7-12 × 5-9 mm;

nectary scale variable, crescent-shaped, funnel-shaped, or flaplike;

style 0.8-1.2 mm.

receptacle glabrous;

sepals 3-4, spreading or reflexed from base, 2-4 × 1-3 mm, glabrous;

petals 3-4, 2-4 × 1-3 mm;

nectary on petal surface, scale poorly developed and forming crescent-shaped ridge surrounding but not covering nectary;

style 0.1-0.2 mm.

ovoid, 8-10 × 7-8 mm;

achenes 1.8-2.2 × 1.6-2.2 mm, glabrous;

beak lanceolate, straight, 1-1.8 mm.

globose or short-ovoid, 3-5 × 2-5 mm;

achenes 1-1.4 × 0.8-1.2 mm, glabrous;

beak linear, curved, 0.1-0.4 mm.

= 32.

= 32.