Flora of North America species comparison

not thickened basally, glabrous.

never tuberous.

erect or ascending, rooting at most proximal nodes, glabrous.

erect or reclining, never rooting nodally, hispid or glabrous, base not bulbous.

blades broadly triangular to cordate in outline, 3-foliolate, 6-13 × 8-16 cm, leaflets lobed, margins toothed, ultimate segments elliptic to lance-elliptic or oblong, margins toothed, apex acute or obtuse.

ovate or lanceolate, 1.2-4.2 × 0.5-1.2 cm, base acute to truncate, margins entire or denticulate, apex acuminate to rounded.

bracts linear to lanceolate or oblanceolate.

receptacle glabrous;

sepals 4-5, spreading or reflexed from base, 1.5-3 × 1-1.5 mm, glabrous or sparsely hirsute;

petals 1-3, 1.5-2 × 0.5-1 mm;

nectary scales glabrous.

receptacle hispid;

sepals reflexed 1-2 mm above base, 6-9 × 3-4 mm, sparsely hispid;

petals 5, abaxially yellow or purplish, adaxially yellow, 9-11 × 6-8 mm.

hemispheric to cylindric, 2-8 × 2-3 mm;

achenes 1-1.2 × 0.6-0.8 mm, ± tuberculate, glabrous;

beak absent or nearly so, to 0.1 mm.

ovoid to globose, 9-11 × 8-11 mm;

achenes 3.2-3.8 × 2-3 mm, glabrous, margin forming narrow rib 0.1-0.2 mm wide;

beak persistent, lanceolate or subulate from triangular base, straight or tip weakly hooked, 1-1.8 mm.