Flora of North America species comparison

thickened basally, glabrous.

erect or ascending, never rooting nodally, glabrous.

reclining or erect, glabrous or sparsely pilose.

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.

bracts narrowly elliptic to ovate or lanceolate.

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.

pedicellate;

receptacle hispid;

sepals 5, reflexed, 4-7 × 2-3 mm, sparsely bristly;

petals 5, 4-8 × 2-4.5 mm.

hemispheric, 3 × 4-5 mm;

achenes 1.6-1.8 × 1.2 mm, glabrous;

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

globose, 13-16 × 13-16 mm;

achenes 10-20 per head, 5-5.5 × 3-3.5 mm, faces covered with long spines, glabrous, margin smooth;

beak lanceolate, curved, 2-2.5 mm.

and lower cauline leaf blades broadly cordate to reniform or semicircular, undivided or 3-lobed, 2-5 × 3-6.5 cm, base rounded to cordate, margins coarsely crenate, apex rounded.