Flora of North America species comparison

never tuberous.

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

prostrate or sometimes floating, glabrous or hirsute, rooting nodally.

basal leaves absent, cauline leaf blades reniform to circular, 3-parted, 0.6-6.5 × 1.1-9 cm, base cordate, segments again 1-3x-lobed to -dissected, margins entire or crenate, apex rounded to filiform.

blades 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 hirsute;

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

petals 5, yellow, 2-4 × 1-2.5 mm.

receptacle sparsely hispid;

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

petals 4-14, 3-7 × 2-5 mm;

nectary scale variable, crescent-shaped, funnel-shaped, or flaplike;

style 0.2-0.4 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.

globose or ovoid, 3-8 × 3-7 mm;

achenes 1-1.6 × 1-1.2 mm, glabrous;

beak narrowly lanceolate or filiform, 0.4-0.8 mm.

= 16.

= 16, 32, 64.