Flora of North America species comparison

erect, glabrous, rooting at base, only very rarely rooting at proximal nodes.

erect from short caudices, not rooting nodally, glabrous, not bulbous-based.

basal and cauline, basal and proximal cauline leaf blades reniform to semicircular in outline, 3-lobed or -parted, 1-5 × 1.6-6.8 cm, base truncate to cordate, segments usually again lobed or parted, sometimes undivided, margins crenate or crenate-lobulate, apex rounded or occasionally obtuse.

basal leaf blades semicircular or reniform in outline, shallowly 5-7-lobed, 1.2-4.6 × 1.8-6.6 cm, ultimate segments semicircular, margins crenate, apex rounded or weakly apiculate;

cauline leaves 0-2, scalelike.

receptacle pubescent or glabrous;

sepals 3-5, reflexed from or near base, 2-5 × 1-3 mm, glabrous or sparsely hirsute;

petals 3-5, 2-5 × 1-3 mm;

nectary on petal surface, scale poorly developed and forming crescent-shaped or circular ridge surrounding but not covering nectary;

style absent.

receptacle glabrous;

sepals spreading, white or pale yellow, 6-13 × 3-6 mm, glabrous;

petals 8-12, greenish, 2-4 × 0.6-1.6 mm.

ellipsoid or cylindric heads, 5-13 × 3-7 mm;

achenes 1-1.2 × 0.8-1 mm, glabrous;

beak deltate, usually straight, 0.1 mm.

ovoid, 6-7 × 6-8 mm;

achenes 3.8-4.2 × 0.8-1 mm, canescent;

beak persistent, filiform, 1.2-1.4 mm, hooked distally.

roots absent.