Flora of North America species comparison

never tuberous.

prostrate, glabrous, rooting nodally.

erect or ascending, never rooting nodally, crisped-pilose, base not bulbous.

basal leaves absent, cauline leaf blades reniform to broadly flabellate, deeply 3-lobed or 3-parted, 0.3-1.2 × 0.5-2.1 cm, base obtuse to cordate, lobes undivided or lateral lobes cleft, terminal segment entire or distally crenulate, apex rounded.

blades broadly rhombic to semicircular in outline, 3-parted, 2.8-4.3 × 3-5.5 cm, segments 3-lobed, ultimate segments lanceolate, margins entire or toothed, apex narrowly acute or acuminate.

receptacle glabrous;

sepals 3-4, spreading or reflexed from base, 2-4 × 1-3 mm, glabrous;

petals 3-4, 2-4 × 1-3 mm;

nectary on petal surface, scale poorly developed and forming crescent-shaped ridge surrounding but not covering nectary;

style 0.1-0.2 mm.

receptacle glabrous;

sepals reflexed 1 mm above base, 4-6 × 1.5-3 mm, densely pilose;

petals 5, abaxially red, adaxially yellow, 10-12 × 4-6 mm.

globose or short-ovoid, 3-5 × 2-5 mm;

achenes 1-1.4 × 0.8-1.2 mm, glabrous;

beak linear, curved, 0.1-0.4 mm.

hemispheric, 4-7 × 7-10 mm;

achenes 3.4-4.2 × 2.8-3.2 mm, sometimes basally pilose, margin forming narrow rib 0.1-0.2 mm wide;

beak persistent, lance-subulate, straight or somewhat curved distally, 1.6-2.6 mm.

= 32.