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.

erect, never rooting nodally, hirsute, 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-parted, 1.3-3 × 1.8-3.8 cm, segments cleft, ultimate segments elliptic to lanceolate, margins toothed, apex 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 glabrous;

sepals spreading, 7-9 × 2-4 mm, hirsute;

petals 5, yellow, 10-15 × 8-11 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.

nearly globose, 7-10 mm wide;

achenes 2.4 × 2.6-2.7 mm, glabrous, margin forming narrow rib 0.1-0.2 mm wide;

beak persistent, lanceolate, strongly hooked or curved, 1.6-2 mm.

= 16.