Flora of North America species comparison

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

glabrous.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

roots absent.

= 32.

= 16 (Europe).