Flora of North America species comparison

cylindric, 1-3 mm thick.

not thickened basally, glabrous.

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

erect to prostrate, usually rooting nodally, glabrous or strigose.

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.

ovate to broadly ovate, 0.8-2.7 × 0.8-1.9 cm, base rounded to weakly cordate, margins entire or dentate, apex rounded or obtuse.

bracts lanceolate to oblanceolate or sometimes ovate.

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 glabrous;

sepals 5, spreading or reflexed from base, 1.5-3 × 1-2 mm, glabrous;

petals 5-6, 3-5 × 1-2 mm;

nectary scales glabrous.

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.

hemispheric or globose, 2-4 × 3-4 mm;

achenes 1.2-1.4 × 1-1.2 mm, glabrous;

beak lanceolate to lance-filiform, straight or curved, 0.4-1 mm.