Flora of North America species comparison

sometimes fleshy and ± tuberous.

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

blades narrowly ovate to oblong or semicircular in outline, simple to 3-5-lobed or -foliolate, 2.8-12.5 × 2.5-14 cm, leaflets or segments undivided or 1-2x-lobed or -parted, ultimate segments circular to linear, margins dentate, crenate, or entire, apex rounded to narrowly acute.

blades cordate to oblong or circular in outline, simple and undivided or 3-foliolate, if compound the leaflets undivided, margins crenate, apices rounded to obtuse or occasionally acute.

receptacle hispid;

sepals reflexed 1-2 mm above base, 5-11 × 2-4 mm, hispid, hirsute, or glabrous;

petals 5-6, abaxially yellow or red, adaxially yellow, 8-18 × 4-11 mm.

petals abaxially yellow, 6-9 mm broad, retuse.

hemispheric to ovoid, 5-13 × 6-10 mm;

achenes 2.8-4.5 × 1.8-3.2 mm, glabrous, margin forming narrow rib 0.1-0.2 mm wide;

beak persistent, narrowly lanceolate to subulate, straight, 1.8-3.8(-4.8) mm.

hemispheric to ovoid, 7-9 mm;

beak 1.8-2.2 mm.

= 32.