Flora of North America species comparison

never tuberous.

erect or reclining, never rooting nodally, hispid or glabrous, base not bulbous.

glabrous.

blade reniform, 0.4-1 × 0.6-1.7 cm, margins shallowly crenate-lobulate, segments rounded.

broadly triangular to cordate in outline, 3-foliolate, 6-13 × 8-16 cm, leaflets lobed, margins toothed, ultimate segments elliptic to lance-elliptic or oblong, margins toothed, apex acute or obtuse.

receptacle hispid;

sepals reflexed 1-2 mm above base, 6-9 × 3-4 mm, sparsely hispid;

petals 5, abaxially yellow or purplish, adaxially yellow, 9-11 × 6-8 mm.

receptacle glabrous;

sepals recurved, 1.5-2 × 1-1.5 mm, glabrous;

petals 5, 2-4 × 1-1.5 mm;

style 0.1 mm.

recurved.

ovoid to globose, 9-11 × 8-11 mm;

achenes 3.2-3.8 × 2-3 mm, glabrous, margin forming narrow rib 0.1-0.2 mm wide;

beak persistent, lanceolate or subulate from triangular base, straight or tip weakly hooked, 1-1.8 mm.

globose or depressed-globose, 3-4 × 3-4 mm;

achenes 1.2-1.6 × 1-1.2 mm, glabrous;

beak deciduous, sometimes leaving stub to 0.1 mm.

= 16 (Europe).