Flora of North America species comparison

cylindric, 1-3 mm thick.

slender, 0.4-1 mm thick.

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

erect from short caudices, 3-20 cm, sparsely pilose to glabrous, each with 1-3 flowers.

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.

persistent, blades transversely elliptic to orbiculate, 1-3 × 1-3 cm, base obtuse to nearly truncate, margins crenate or else blades shallowly 3-lobed with crenate lateral lobes, apex rounded or rounded-apiculate.

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.

pedicels sparsely brown-pilose;

receptacle brown-pilose;

sepals 6-8 × 3-6 mm, abaxially densely brown-hispid;

petals 5(-6), 8-12 × 6-10 mm;

nectary scale 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.

ovoid-cylindric or ovoid, 6-7(-9) × 5-6 mm;

achenes 1.8-2.2 × 1.4-1.8 mm, glabrous or sparsely brown-hispid;

beak slender, straight or curved, 0.8-1.4 mm.

= 42, ca. 80, ca. 84, 96, ca. 98.