Flora of North America species comparison

never tuberous.

erect to reclining, not rooting nodally, hirsute or sometimes pilose or glabrous, base not bulbous.

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

basal leaf blades semicircular or reniform in outline, shallowly 5-7-lobed, 1.2-4.6 × 1.8-6.6 cm, ultimate segments semicircular, margins crenate, apex rounded or weakly apiculate;

cauline leaves 0-2, scalelike.

broadly ovate to semicircular or reniform in outline, 3-parted or -foliolate, 1.5-5.3 × 2.2-8 cm, segments usually again 1(-2)×-lobed, ultimate segments oblong or elliptic to lanceolate or oblanceolate, margins dentate (sometimes dentate-lobulate or entire), apex acute to rounded-obtuse.

receptacle glabrous;

sepals reflexed 2-3 mm above base, 4-7(-9) × 2-4 mm, hirsute;

petals 5-14, yellow, 5-13 × 1.5-8 mm.

receptacle glabrous;

sepals spreading, white or pale yellow, 6-13 × 3-6 mm, glabrous;

petals 8-12, greenish, 2-4 × 0.6-1.6 mm.

hemispheric, 3-7 × 5-9 mm;

achenes 2.6-3.6(-4.8) × 1.8-3(-3.2) mm, glabrous, rarely hispid, margin forming narrow rib 0.1-0.2 mm wide;

beak persistent, lanceolate to lance-subulate, straight or curved, 0.4-2.2 mm.

ovoid, 6-7 × 6-8 mm;

achenes 3.8-4.2 × 0.8-1 mm, canescent;

beak persistent, filiform, 1.2-1.4 mm, hooked distally.

roots absent.