Flora of North America species comparison

never tuberous.

slender, 0.2-0.8 mm thick.

erect or decumbent, sometimes rooting nodally, hispid or strigose, base not bulbous.

erect or nearly erect, 10-50 cm, glabrous, each with 9-40 flowers.

blades ovate to deltate in outline, 3-foliolate or outer blades merely 3-parted, 2-13.4 × 2.4-16.8 cm, leaflets undivided to lobed or parted, ultimate segments narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate to circular, margins toothed, apex acuminate to rounded.

persistent, blades reniform, outer undivided, inner 3-lobed to 3-foliolate, 1-3.5 × 1.5-4.5 cm, base truncate or cordate, margins crenate, apex rounded or obtuse.

receptacle hispid;

sepals spreading or reflexed, 4-10 × 2-5 mm, hispid;

petals 5, yellow, 8-16 × 3-9 mm.

pedicels pubescent or glabrous;

receptacle sparsely pilose;

sepals 2-3 × 1-2 mm, abaxially sparsely hispid, hairs colorless;

petals 5, 1-2 × 0.5-1 mm;

nectary scale glabrous.

hemispheric to short-ovoid, 6-10 × 7-10 mm;

achenes 2.2-5.2 × 2-3.8 mm, glabrous, margin forming narrow rib or broad wing 0.1-1.2 mm wide;

beak persistent, lance-subulate, straight or somewhat curved, 0.8-2.6 mm.

globose to ovoid, 3-7 × 3-5 mm;

achenes 1.5-2 × 1.4-1.8 mm, glabrous;

beak slender, strongly curved, 0.6-1 mm.

= 16.