Flora of North America species comparison

never tuberous.

erect or ascending, not rooting nodally, villous, not bulbous-based.

prostrate to nearly erect, often rooting nodally, hirsute or glabrous, base not bulbous.

blades broadly spatulate in outline, 1-2x-dissected, 0.9-3.8 × 0.5-1.5 cm, segments linear, margins entire, apex obtuse to acuminate.

blades cordate to reniform in outline, 3-foliolate, 3.7-7.5 × 4.5-9.5 cm, leaflets 3-lobed or -parted, ultimate segments elliptic or lance-elliptic, margins toothed or lobulate, apex acute to broadly acute.

receptacle glabrous;

sepals spreading, 3-6 × 1-2 mm, villous;

petals yellow, 3-5 × 1-3 mm.

receptacle hirsute;

sepals spreading or reflexed ca. 1 mm above base, 4-6 × 1.5-3 mm, glabrous or hirsute;

petals 5, yellow, 4-6 × 3.5-5 mm.

cylindric, 9-16(-27) × 8-10 mm;

achenes 1.6-2 × 1.8-2 mm, tomentose;

beak persistent, lanceolate, 3.5-4.5 mm.

globose or ovoid, 7-11 × 7-10 mm;

achenes 2.4-3 × 2-2.4 mm, glabrous, margin forming narrow rib 0.1-0.2 mm wide;

beak persistent, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, straight or nearly so, 1-1.2 mm.

roots absent.

= 32, 48.