Flora of North America species comparison

slender, 0.2-0.8 mm thick.

erect from short caudices or rhizomes, not rooting nodally, glabrous, not bulbous-based.

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

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.

circular to ovate or obovate, undivided, 0.8-2.6 × 0.6-1.4 cm, margins entire or serrulate, apex obtuse or rounded.

receptacle glabrous;

sepals spreading, 4-8 × 2-4 mm, glabrous;

petals yellow, 5-12 × 1-3 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.

depressed-hemispheric or -conic, 3-4 × 5 mm;

achenes 2-2.6 × 1-1.4 mm, glabrous;

beak persistent, lanceolate, straight, 0.8-1.2 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.

roots absent.

= 16.

= 16.