Flora of North America species comparison

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

prostrate, buried, 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.

reniform, deeply 3-parted, 1.1-2.6 × 1.6-4.3 cm, segments undivided or 1x cleft, margins crenate, apex rounded.

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 or reflexed from base, 4-7 × 2-5 mm, glabrous;

petals yellow, 5-6 × 2-3 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.

hemispheric, 5-7 × 8-10 mm;

achenes 3.8-4.2 × 2-2.2 mm, glabrous;

beak persistent, lanceolate, curved, tip hooked, 1.6-2.4 mm.

roots absent.

= 16.