Flora of North America species comparison

nearly erect, hispid, base not bulbous.

glabrous.

laminate and filiform-dissected; laminate leaf blades reniform, 3-parted, 0.4-1.1 × 0.7-2.3 cm, segments obovate or fan-shaped, shallowly cleft, margins crenate;

filiform-dissected leaves with stipules gradually tapering upward, connate for their whole length.

pedicellate;

receptacle pilose;

sepals 5, reflexed, 3-8 × 1.5-3 mm, pilose;

petals 5, 7-10 × 4-8 mm.

receptacle hispid, rarely glabrous;

sepals spreading or reflexed, 2-4 × 1-2 mm, glabrous;

petals 5, 4-7 × 1-5 mm;

style 0.1-0.8 mm.

usually recurved.

globose or ovoid, 5-8 × 6-7 mm;

achenes 15-35 per head, 2-3 × 2-3 mm, faces sparsely papillate or sometimes smooth, glabrous, margin smooth;

beak oblong to deltate, curved, 0.4-0.7 mm.

hemispheric to ovoid, 2-4 × 2-5 mm;

achenes 1-2 × 0.8-1.4 mm, glabrous or hispid;

beak persistent, filiform, 0.1-1.2 mm.

and lower cauline leaf blades ovate to cordate, 3-foliolate, 2-6 × 2-6 cm, leaflets again parted, leaflet base truncate to acute, margins crenate-dentate to crenate-lobulate, apex rounded to obtuse.