Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent, sparsely pilose.

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.

receptacle glabrous;

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

petals yellow, 3-5 × 1-3 mm.

sessile;

receptacle glabrous or pilose;

sepals 3, spreading, 1-2 × 0.5-1 mm, hirsute;

petals 3, 1-2 × 0.5-0.8 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.

hemispheric, 2-2.5 × 3-3.5 mm;

achenes 10-15 per head, 1.3-1.7 × 1-1.3 mm, faces and proximal margin finely papillate, each papilla crowned with hooked bristle, otherwise glabrous;

beak semicircular to deltate, curved, 0.2-0.5 mm.

roots absent.

and lower cauline leaf blades reniform, 3-parted, 0.8-1.7 × 1.2-2 cm, segment base cordate, margins dentate or lobulate, apex rounded-obtuse.