Flora of North America species comparison

erect or nearly erect, hispid.

erect or ascending from caudices, not rooting nodally, distally glabrous or brown-pilose, not bulbous-based.

blades reniform to broadly triangular in outline, 3-foliolate or deeply 3-parted, 1-4 × 1.6-4.4 cm, leaflets or segments 1-2x-parted, ultimate segments elliptic to oblanceolate or almost linear, margins entire or occasionally with 1-2 teeth, apex rounded to obtuse.

pedicellate;

receptacle glabrous;

sepals 5, reflexed, 1.5-2 × 0.8-1.2 mm, densely pubescent;

petals 0-5, 1.1-1.8 × 0.2-0.7 mm.

receptacle glabrous or brown-pilose;

sepals spreading, 7-12 × 4-9 mm, brown-pilose;

petals initially white, usually becoming red with age, 9-15 × 7-14(-18) mm.

globose, 3-5 × 3-5 mm;

achenes 10-20 per head, 1.7-2 × 1.4-1.7 mm, faces papillose, each papilla crowned with hooked bristle, otherwise glabrous, margin smooth;

beak deltate with slender recurved tip, 0.4-0.6 mm.

and lower cauline leaf blades semicircular or reniform, 3-parted or -divided, 1.5-3.2 × 1-2.4 cm, again lobed, base cordate, margins dentate, apex rounded.

roots absent.

heads hemispheric, 5-8 × 7-16 mm;

fruit wall smooth, not veined, loose but not inflated, winged along suture, fruits winged achenes;

achenes 2.6-3 × 1.4-2 mm, glabrous;

beak persistent, lanceolate, 0.8-2.3 mm.