Flora of North America species comparison

never tuberous.

never tuberous.

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

prostrate to nearly erect, often rooting nodally, hirsute or glabrous, base not bulbous.

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.

blades cordate to reniform in outline, 3-foliolate, 3.7-7.5 × 4.5-9.5 cm, leaflets 3-lobed or -parted, ultimate segments elliptic or lance-elliptic, margins toothed or lobulate, apex acute to broadly acute.

receptacle hispid;

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

petals 5, yellow, 8-16 × 3-9 mm.

receptacle hirsute;

sepals spreading or reflexed ca. 1 mm above base, 4-6 × 1.5-3 mm, glabrous or hirsute;

petals 5, yellow, 4-6 × 3.5-5 mm.

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 or ovoid, 7-11 × 7-10 mm;

achenes 2.4-3 × 2-2.4 mm, glabrous, margin forming narrow rib 0.1-0.2 mm wide;

beak persistent, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, straight or nearly so, 1-1.2 mm.

= 32, 48.