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, pilose.

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.

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.

pedicellate;

receptacle glabrous;

sepals 5, spreading, 1.1-1.8 × 0.5-1 mm, pilose;

petals 0-5, 1.3-2 × 0.3-0.7 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.

discoid, 4-6 × 3 mm;

achenes 4-9 per head, 1.7-2.3 × 1.7-2 mm, faces and margin papillose, each papilla crowned with hooked bristle, otherwise glabrous;

beak lanceolate, hooked distally, 0.5-0.7 mm.

and lower cauline leaf blades cordate-reniform, deeply 3-parted, 0.6-2.3 × 1.2-3.5 cm, segments undivided or 2-4-lobed, base shallowly cordate, margins entire or 2-4-dentate, apex of ultimate segments acute.

= 16.