Flora of North America species comparison

not thickened basally, glabrous.

slender, 0.3-0.8 mm thick.

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

erect or decumbent, 1-12 cm, sparsely pilose, each with 1-3 flowers.

persistent, blades broadly obovate to transversely elliptic, 3-lobed or -parted, 0.9-3 × 0.8-3.4 cm, segments undivided or again lobed, base obtuse, margins entire, apices of segments rounded to rounded-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.

pedicels pilose;

receptacle pilose;

sepals 4-7 × 2-3 mm, abaxially pilose, hairs colorless;

petals 5, 5-8 × 3-4 mm;

nectary scale 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.

cylindric, 6-9 × 4 mm;

achenes 1.2-1.4 × 0.8-1 mm, glabrous;

beak lance-subulate, straight or curved, 0.4-0.6 mm.

= 64.