Flora of North America species comparison

not thickened basally, glabrous.

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

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

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

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;

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

petals yellow, 5-12 × 1-3 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.

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.

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.

= 16.