Flora of North America species comparison

thickened basally, glabrous.

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

erect or ascending, never rooting nodally, glabrous.

basal leaf blades with base obtuse to cordate;

proximal cauline leaf blades semicircular to cordate or ovate, 1.2-5.1 × 1.5-2.9 cm, base cordate to broadly obtuse, margins entire or crenulate, apex broadly acute to 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.

bracts narrowly elliptic to ovate or lanceolate.

receptacle glabrous;

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

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

receptacle glabrous or hispidulous;

sepals 4-5, spreading or reflexed from base, 3-5 × 2-4 mm, glabrous;

petals 5-6, 4-9 × 2-5 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, 3 × 4-5 mm;

achenes 1.6-1.8 × 1.2 mm, glabrous;

beak lance-subulate, straight, 0.2-1 mm.

roots absent.

= 32.