Flora of North America species comparison

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

reclining or erect, glabrous or sparsely pilose.

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.

pedicellate;

receptacle hispid;

sepals 5, reflexed, 4-7 × 2-3 mm, sparsely bristly;

petals 5, 4-8 × 2-4.5 mm.

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, 13-16 × 13-16 mm;

achenes 10-20 per head, 5-5.5 × 3-3.5 mm, faces covered with long spines, glabrous, margin smooth;

beak lanceolate, curved, 2-2.5 mm.

roots absent.

and lower cauline leaf blades broadly cordate to reniform or semicircular, undivided or 3-lobed, 2-5 × 3-6.5 cm, base rounded to cordate, margins coarsely crenate, apex rounded.

= 16.