Flora of North America species comparison

not thickened basally, glabrous.

thickened basally, glabrous.

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

erect or ascending, never rooting nodally, glabrous.

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.

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.

bracts narrowly elliptic to ovate or lanceolate.

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 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.

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.

hemispheric, 3 × 4-5 mm;

achenes 1.6-1.8 × 1.2 mm, glabrous;

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