Flora of North America species comparison

slender, 0.8-1.8 mm thick.

not thickened basally, canescent.

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

erect or ascending, not rooting nodally, glabrous.

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.

narrowly elliptic to linear, 2.5-4.8 × 0.2-0.9 cm, base narrowly acuminate, margins entire, apex acute to acuminate.

bracts lanceolate to linear.

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 5, spreading or reflexed from base, 3-5 × 1-2 mm, glabrous;

petals 5, 4-6 × 1-2 mm;

nectary scales glabrous.

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, 2-4 × 3-5 mm;

achenes 1-1.4 × 0.8 mm, glabrous;

beak subulate, straight, 0.2-0.4 mm.

= 16.