Flora of North America species comparison

never tuberous.

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

erect, never rooting nodally, hispid, base not bulbous.

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.

broadly cordate in outline, 3-foliolate, 1.6-7 × 3-9 cm, leaflets cleft, usually deeply so, ultimate segments narrowly elliptic, margins toothed, apex acute.

receptacle glabrous;

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

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

receptacle hirsute;

sepals reflexed ca. 1 mm above base, 3-5 × 1.5-2 mm, ± hispid;

petals 5, yellow, 2-4 × 1-2.5 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.

cylindric, 9-12 × 5-7 mm;

achenes 1.8-2.8 × 1.6-2 mm, glabrous, margin forming narrow rib 0.1-0.2 mm wide;

beak persistent, broadly lanceolate or nearly deltate, straight or nearly so, 0.6-0.8 mm.

roots absent.

= 32.

= 16.