Flora of North America species comparison

slender, 0.8-1.8 mm thick.

never tuberous.

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

prostrate to nearly erect, often rooting nodally, hirsute or glabrous, base not bulbous.

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 to reniform in outline, 3-foliolate, 3.7-7.5 × 4.5-9.5 cm, leaflets 3-lobed or -parted, ultimate segments elliptic or lance-elliptic, margins toothed or lobulate, apex acute to broadly acute.

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 hirsute;

sepals spreading or reflexed ca. 1 mm above base, 4-6 × 1.5-3 mm, glabrous or hirsute;

petals 5, yellow, 4-6 × 3.5-5 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.

globose or ovoid, 7-11 × 7-10 mm;

achenes 2.4-3 × 2-2.4 mm, glabrous, margin forming narrow rib 0.1-0.2 mm wide;

beak persistent, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, straight or nearly so, 1-1.2 mm.

= 16.

= 32, 48.