Flora of North America species comparison

never tuberous.

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

erect, pilose.

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.

pedicellate;

receptacle glabrous;

sepals 5, spreading, 1.1-1.8 × 0.5-1 mm, pilose;

petals 0-5, 1.3-2 × 0.3-0.7 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.

discoid, 4-6 × 3 mm;

achenes 4-9 per head, 1.7-2.3 × 1.7-2 mm, faces and margin papillose, each papilla crowned with hooked bristle, otherwise glabrous;

beak lanceolate, hooked distally, 0.5-0.7 mm.

and lower cauline leaf blades cordate-reniform, deeply 3-parted, 0.6-2.3 × 1.2-3.5 cm, segments undivided or 2-4-lobed, base shallowly cordate, margins entire or 2-4-dentate, apex of ultimate segments acute.

= 16.