Flora of North America species comparison

never tuberous.

erect, sparsely pilose.

prostrate to nearly erect, often rooting nodally, hirsute or glabrous, base not bulbous.

reniform to semicircular, undivided or shallowly 3-lobed, 2.5-5 × 3-7 cm, base truncate to nearly cordate, margins crenate or dentate, apex rounded or obtuse.

cordate to reniform in outline, 3-foliolate, 3.7-7.5 × 4.5-9.5 cm, leaflets 3-lobed or -parted, ultimate segments elliptic or lance-elliptic, margins toothed or lobulate, apex acute to broadly acute.

pedicellate;

receptacle hispid;

sepals 5, reflexed 1 mm from base, 3-5 × 1-2 mm, hispid;

petals 5, 4-5 × 2-3.5 mm.

receptacle hirsute;

sepals spreading or reflexed ca. 1 mm above base, 4-6 × 1.5-3 mm, glabrous or hirsute;

petals 5, yellow, 4-6 × 3.5-5 mm.

hemispheric to globose, 4 × 6 mm;

achenes 15-20 per head, 2.5-3 × 2-2.5 mm, faces covered with high sharp tubercles or low spines, glabrous, margin smooth;

beak deltate, straight, 0.8-1 mm.

globose or ovoid, 7-11 × 7-10 mm;

achenes 2.4-3 × 2-2.4 mm, glabrous, margin forming narrow rib 0.1-0.2 mm wide;

beak persistent, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, straight or nearly so, 1-1.2 mm.

= 32, 48.