Flora of North America species comparison

slender, 0.4-0.8 mm thick.

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

erect from short caudices, 4-22 cm, glabrous or sparsely pilose, each with 1 flower.

persistent or deciduous, blades reniform, 3-parted, 0.6-2 × 1.3-3 cm, at least lateral segments again lobed or margins toothed, base truncate or cordate, apices of segments rounded-apiculate.

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.

pedicels glabrous or brown-pilose;

receptacle glabrous;

sepals 6-8 × 3-5 mm, abaxially densely brown-hispid;

petals 5(-6), 8-11 × 7-12 mm;

nectary scale 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.

cylindric or ovoid-cylindric, 7-14 × 5-6 mm;

achenes 1.5-2.2 × 1.2-1.6 mm, glabrous;

beak slender, straight, 1-2 mm.

roots absent.

= 32.

= 48.