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, sparsely 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.

blades reniform to semicircular, undivided or shallowly 3-lobed, 2.5-5 × 3-7 cm, base truncate to nearly cordate, margins crenate or dentate, apex rounded or 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.

pedicellate;

receptacle hispid;

sepals 5, reflexed 1 mm from base, 3-5 × 1-2 mm, hispid;

petals 5, 4-5 × 2-3.5 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.

hemispheric to globose, 4 × 6 mm;

achenes 15-20 per head, 2.5-3 × 2-2.5 mm, faces covered with high sharp tubercles or low spines, glabrous, margin smooth;

beak deltate, straight, 0.8-1 mm.

= 16.