Flora of North America species comparison

slender, 0.8-1.8 mm thick.

not thickened basally, glabrous or somewhat canescent proximally.

erect, 5-22 cm, pilose or occasionally glabrous, each with 3-12 flowers.

erect or ascending, rooting at proximal nodes, glabrous or sparsely hirsute.

persistent, blades ovate to rhombic, undivided or rarely innermost 3-parted, 1.1-5.3 × 0.9-3.6 cm, base obtuse, margins crenate with 5 crenae, apex rounded.

lanceolate, 5.9-12.2 × 1.1-2.4 cm, base rounded-obtuse to acuminate, margins denticulate, apex acuminate.

bracts linear or lanceolate.

pedicels pilose;

receptacle pilose;

sepals 4-6 × 1.5-3 mm, abaxially pilose, hairs colorless;

petals 5, 6-8 × 2-4 mm;

nectary scale glabrous.

receptacle glabrous;

sepals 5, spreading or sometimes reflexed from base, 3-5 × 2-3 mm, glabrous;

petals 5, 5-8 × 2-3 mm;

nectary scales glabrous.

depressed-globose, 4-6 × 5-7 mm;

achenes 1.8-2.2 × 1.2-1.8 mm, glabrous;

beak slender, curved, 0.2-0.3 mm.

short-ovoid to depressed-globose, 5-7 × 4-8 mm;

achenes 1.8 × 1.2-1.4 mm, glabrous;

beak lanceolate, straight, 0.6-1.2 mm.

= 16.