Flora of North America species comparison

tuberous.

erect or decumbent, never rooting nodally, hispid, base not bulbous.

erect or ascending, not rooting nodally, villous, not bulbous-based.

ovate in outline, 3-5-foliolate, 3.8-10 × 2.7-9 cm, leaflets 1x-lobed, ultimate segments narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, margins entire or with few teeth, apex broadly acute to rounded-obtuse.

broadly spatulate in outline, 1-2x-dissected, 0.9-3.8 × 0.5-1.5 cm, segments linear, margins entire, apex obtuse to acuminate.

receptacle hispid;

sepals spreading or weakly reflexed ca. 1 mm above base, 7-10 × 3-5 mm, hispid;

petals 10-22, yellow, 12-22 × 4-9 mm.

receptacle glabrous;

sepals spreading, 3-6 × 1-2 mm, villous;

petals yellow, 3-5 × 1-3 mm.

globose to cylindric, 8-14 × 8-10 mm;

achenes 2.2-4.2 × 2.8-3.4 mm, glabrous, margin forming narrow rib 0.4-0.6 mm wide;

beak usually persistent, filiform from deltate base, straight, 2-4 mm.

cylindric, 9-16(-27) × 8-10 mm;

achenes 1.6-2 × 1.8-2 mm, tomentose;

beak persistent, lanceolate, 3.5-4.5 mm.

roots absent.

= 32.