Flora of North America species comparison

cylindric, 1-3 mm thick.

prostrate or ascending, 4-15 cm, glabrous, each with 1-4 flowers.

erect from short caudices, not rooting nodally, glabrous, not bulbous-based.

persistent, blades reniform or obovate to very narrowly elliptic, 0.7-5.2 × 1-2 cm, base truncate, obtuse or attenuate, margins entire or with 3 broad, apical crenae, apex rounded to acute.

cordate in outline, ternately 1-2x-compound, 1.5-3.8 × 2.1-3.8 cm, leaflets 2-3x-parted, ultimate segments elliptic to linear, margins entire or with occasional teeth, apex obtuse to acuminate.

pedicels glabrous or nearly so;

receptacle glabrous;

sepals 5-8 × 3-7 mm, abaxially glabrous or sparsely pilose, hairs colorless;

petals 5-10, 8-13 × 5-12 mm;

nectary scale glabrous or ciliate.

receptacle hispid;

sepals spreading, 9-15 × 5-9 mm, glabrous;

petals pinkish white, 12-18 × 9-13 mm.

globose, 7-12(-20) × 6-11(-20) mm;

achenes 1.4-2.2 × 1.1-1.8 mm, usually finely pubescent;

beak subulate or lance-subulate, straight or curved, 0.4-1 mm.

roots absent.

heads globose or depressed-globose, 13-27 × 21-29 mm;

fruit wall veined, inflated, not winged, fruits thus utricles;

utricles 6-12 × 4-6 mm, glabrous;

beak persistent, deltate or subulate from deltate base, 0.2-0.6 mm.