Flora of North America species comparison

thickened basally, glabrous.

erect or ascending, never rooting nodally, glabrous.

erect, glabrous, rooting at base, only very rarely rooting at proximal nodes.

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.

basal and cauline, basal and proximal cauline leaf blades reniform to semicircular in outline, 3-lobed or -parted, 1-5 × 1.6-6.8 cm, base truncate to cordate, segments usually again lobed or parted, sometimes undivided, margins crenate or crenate-lobulate, apex rounded or occasionally obtuse.

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.

receptacle pubescent or glabrous;

sepals 3-5, reflexed from or near base, 2-5 × 1-3 mm, glabrous or sparsely hirsute;

petals 3-5, 2-5 × 1-3 mm;

nectary on petal surface, scale poorly developed and forming crescent-shaped or circular ridge surrounding but not covering nectary;

style absent.

hemispheric, 3 × 4-5 mm;

achenes 1.6-1.8 × 1.2 mm, glabrous;

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

ellipsoid or cylindric heads, 5-13 × 3-7 mm;

achenes 1-1.2 × 0.8-1 mm, glabrous;

beak deltate, usually straight, 0.1 mm.