Flora of North America species comparison

slender, 0.4-1.6 mm thick.

prostrate, buried, rooting nodally, glabrous, not bulbous-based.

erect or decumbent from short or long caudices, 4-27 cm, glabrous, each with 1-3 flowers.

blades reniform, deeply 3-parted, 1.1-2.6 × 1.6-4.3 cm, segments undivided or 1x cleft, margins crenate, apex rounded.

persistent, blades reniform or cordate to obovate or broadly oblong, lobed or 3-parted, 0.5-4.1 × 0.8-3.7 cm, segments again 1(-2)×-lobed, base obtuse to cordate, apices of segments rounded in outline.

receptacle glabrous;

sepals spreading or reflexed from base, 4-7 × 2-5 mm, glabrous;

petals yellow, 5-6 × 2-3 mm.

pedicels glabrous;

receptacle glabrous or sparsely pilose;

sepals 4-8 × 2-6 mm, abaxially glabrous or pilose;

petals 5-8, 6-16 × 4-16 mm;

nectary scale glabrous.

hemispheric, 5-7 × 8-10 mm;

achenes 3.8-4.2 × 2-2.2 mm, glabrous;

beak persistent, lanceolate, curved, tip hooked, 1.6-2.4 mm.

cylindric or ovoid, 5-10 × 4-7 mm;

achenes 1.4-2 × 1-1.6 mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent;

beak lanceolate or subulate, straight (sometimes curved when immature), 0.6-1.8 mm.

roots absent.

= 16.