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.

glabrous.

laminate and filiform-dissected; laminate leaf blades reniform in outline, deeply 3-parted, 0.5-0.8 × 0.9-1.5 cm, segments elliptic or obovate, margins sometimes notched;

filiform-dissected leaves sometimes few and inconspicuous, stipules gradually tapering upward, connate for whole length, mostly petiolate.

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.

receptacle glabrous;

sepals spreading, 2-3 × 1-1.5 mm, glabrous;

petals 5, 4-6 × 2-5 mm;

style 1-1.5 mm.

recurved.

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.

hemispheric, 3 × 4-5 mm;

achenes 2-2.4 × 1.4-1.8 mm, glabrous;

beak deciduous, sometimes leaving stub to 0.2 mm.

= 16.