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 ovate to semicircular in outline, ternately or pinnately 2x-compound, 2.4-8.2 × 2-8.5 cm, leaflets parted and again lobed, ultimate segments elliptic to linear, margins entire (or occasionally a lobe reduced to tooth), apex acuminate to 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, 3-6 × 1-3 mm, glabrous;

petals (0-)5-6, yellow, 3-8 × 1-3 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 to globose, 4-5 × 6-7 mm;

achenes 2.2-3.6 × 1.2-1.8 mm, glabrous;

beak filiform, strongly reflexed from base, 0.8-1.5 mm, brittle, often broken.

roots absent.

= 32.