Flora of North America species comparison

creeping or floating, rooting nodally, glabrous, not bulbous-based.

erect, pilose.

linear to obovate, undivided or 3-lobed, 1.5-3.6 × 0.3-2 cm, lobes lanceolate or elliptic, margins entire, apex rounded to acuminate.

receptacle glabrous;

sepals spreading, 6-10 × 4-7 mm, glabrous;

petals 7-11, white or pink, 8-13 × 3-6 mm.

pedicellate;

receptacle glabrous;

sepals 5, spreading, 1.1-1.8 × 0.5-1 mm, pilose;

petals 0-5, 1.3-2 × 0.3-0.7 mm.

globose or hemispheric, 5-12 × 9-15 mm;

achenes 4.2-5.2 × 2.4-3.2 mm, glabrous;

beak persistent, lanceolate, straight or curved, 1-1.2 mm.

discoid, 4-6 × 3 mm;

achenes 4-9 per head, 1.7-2.3 × 1.7-2 mm, faces and margin papillose, each papilla crowned with hooked bristle, otherwise glabrous;

beak lanceolate, hooked distally, 0.5-0.7 mm.

roots absent.

and lower cauline leaf blades cordate-reniform, deeply 3-parted, 0.6-2.3 × 1.2-3.5 cm, segments undivided or 2-4-lobed, base shallowly cordate, margins entire or 2-4-dentate, apex of ultimate segments acute.

= 32.