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 or ascending from caudices, not rooting nodally, distally glabrous or brown-pilose, 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 reniform to broadly triangular in outline, 3-foliolate or deeply 3-parted, 1-4 × 1.6-4.4 cm, leaflets or segments 1-2x-parted, ultimate segments elliptic to oblanceolate or almost linear, margins entire or occasionally with 1-2 teeth, apex rounded to obtuse.

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 or brown-pilose;

sepals spreading, 7-12 × 4-9 mm, brown-pilose;

petals initially white, usually becoming red with age, 9-15 × 7-14(-18) 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 hemispheric, 5-8 × 7-16 mm;

fruit wall smooth, not veined, loose but not inflated, winged along suture, fruits winged achenes;

achenes 2.6-3 × 1.4-2 mm, glabrous;

beak persistent, lanceolate, 0.8-2.3 mm.

= 16.