Flora of North America species comparison

not thickened basally, glabrous.

erect or ascending from caudices, not rooting nodally, distally glabrous or brown-pilose, not bulbous-based.

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

reniform to broadly triangular in outline, 3-foliolate or deeply 3-parted, 1-4 × 1.6-4.4 cm, leaflets or segments 1-2x-parted, ultimate segments elliptic to oblanceolate or almost linear, margins entire or occasionally with 1-2 teeth, apex rounded to obtuse.

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.

receptacle glabrous or brown-pilose;

sepals spreading, 7-12 × 4-9 mm, brown-pilose;

petals initially white, usually becoming red with age, 9-15 × 7-14(-18) mm.

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.

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.

roots absent.

heads hemispheric, 5-8 × 7-16 mm;

fruit wall smooth, not veined, loose but not inflated, winged along suture, fruits winged achenes;

achenes 2.6-3 × 1.4-2 mm, glabrous;

beak persistent, lanceolate, 0.8-2.3 mm.