Flora of North America species comparison

not thickened basally, glabrous.

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

erect to prostrate, usually rooting nodally, glabrous or strigose.

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.

ovate to broadly ovate, 0.8-2.7 × 0.8-1.9 cm, base rounded to weakly cordate, margins entire or dentate, apex rounded or obtuse.

bracts lanceolate to oblanceolate or sometimes ovate.

receptacle glabrous;

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

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

receptacle glabrous;

sepals 5, spreading or reflexed from base, 1.5-3 × 1-2 mm, glabrous;

petals 5-6, 3-5 × 1-2 mm;

nectary scales glabrous.

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.

hemispheric or globose, 2-4 × 3-4 mm;

achenes 1.2-1.4 × 1-1.2 mm, glabrous;

beak lanceolate to lance-filiform, straight or curved, 0.4-1 mm.

roots absent.

= 32.