Flora of North America species comparison

never tuberous.

decumbent or creeping, rooting nodally, hispid to strigose or almost glabrous, base not bulbous.

prostrate or sometimes floating, glabrous or hirsute, rooting nodally.

basal leaves absent, cauline leaf blades reniform to circular, 3-parted, 0.6-6.5 × 1.1-9 cm, base cordate, segments again 1-3x-lobed to -dissected, margins entire or crenate, apex rounded to filiform.

blades ovate to reniform in outline, 3-foliolate, 1-8.5 × 1.5-10 cm, leaflets lobed, parted, or parted and again lobed, ultimate segments obovate to elliptic or sometimes narrowly oblong, margins toothed, apex obtuse to acuminate.

receptacle hispid or rarely glabrous;

sepals spreading or reflexed from base, 4-7(-10) × 1.5-3(-4) mm, hispid or sometimes glabrous;

petals 5(-150), yellow, 6-18 × 5-12 mm.

receptacle sparsely hispid;

sepals 4-5, spreading or reflexed from base, 2-5 × 2-4 mm, glabrous or sparsely pilose;

petals 4-14, 3-7 × 2-5 mm;

nectary scale variable, crescent-shaped, funnel-shaped, or flaplike;

style 0.2-0.4 mm.

globose or ovoid, 5-10 × 5-8 mm;

achenes 2.6-3.2 × 2-2.8 mm, glabrous, margin forming narrow rib 0.1-0.2 mm wide;

beak persistent, lanceolate to lance-filiform, curved, 0.8-1.2 mm.

globose or ovoid, 3-8 × 3-7 mm;

achenes 1-1.6 × 1-1.2 mm, glabrous;

beak narrowly lanceolate or filiform, 0.4-0.8 mm.

= 14, 32.

= 16, 32, 64.