Flora of North America species comparison

slender, 0.3-0.8 mm thick.

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

erect or decumbent, 1-12 cm, sparsely pilose, each with 1-3 flowers.

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.

persistent, blades broadly obovate to transversely elliptic, 3-lobed or -parted, 0.9-3 × 0.8-3.4 cm, segments undivided or again lobed, base obtuse, margins entire, apices of segments rounded to rounded-obtuse.

receptacle glabrous;

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

petals yellow, 3-5 × 1-3 mm.

pedicels pilose;

receptacle pilose;

sepals 4-7 × 2-3 mm, abaxially pilose, hairs colorless;

petals 5, 5-8 × 3-4 mm;

nectary scale glabrous.

cylindric, 9-16(-27) × 8-10 mm;

achenes 1.6-2 × 1.8-2 mm, tomentose;

beak persistent, lanceolate, 3.5-4.5 mm.

cylindric, 6-9 × 4 mm;

achenes 1.2-1.4 × 0.8-1 mm, glabrous;

beak lance-subulate, straight or curved, 0.4-0.6 mm.

roots absent.

= 64.