Flora of North America species comparison

slender, 0.8-1.8 mm thick.

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

erect from short caudices, not rooting nodally, glabrous, not bulbous-based.

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.

blades cordate in outline, ternately 1-2x-compound, 1.5-3.8 × 2.1-3.8 cm, leaflets 2-3x-parted, ultimate segments elliptic to linear, margins entire or with occasional teeth, apex obtuse to acuminate.

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 hispid;

sepals spreading, 9-15 × 5-9 mm, glabrous;

petals pinkish white, 12-18 × 9-13 mm.

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.

roots absent.

heads globose or depressed-globose, 13-27 × 21-29 mm;

fruit wall veined, inflated, not winged, fruits thus utricles;

utricles 6-12 × 4-6 mm, glabrous;

beak persistent, deltate or subulate from deltate base, 0.2-0.6 mm.

= 16.