Flora of North America species comparison

erect or reclining, hispid or sometimes glabrous.

erect from short caudices, not rooting nodally, glabrous, not bulbous-based.

circular to reniform in outline, 3-5-parted, 0.8-3.8 × 1.7-6.9 cm, segments again lobed, ultimate segments elliptic or oblong, margins crenate, apex rounded;

cauline leaf 0-1, scalelike.

pedicellate;

receptacle hispid;

sepals 5, reflexed, 3-4 × 2 mm, sparsely hispid;

petals 5, 4-5 × 2-3 mm.

receptacle glabrous;

sepals spreading, yellow, 7-11 × 4-7 mm, glabrous;

petals 11-15, yellow, 8-12 × 3-5 mm.

ovoid, 8-9 × 6-7 mm;

achenes 30-60 per head, 2 × 2 mm, faces densely tuberculate, glabrous, margin smooth;

beak semicircular, hooked, 0.3 mm.

hemispheric or spheric, 7-8 × 9-10 mm;

achenes 2.4-4.6 × 1.2-2.2 mm, glabrous;

beak persistent, filiform, hooked distally, 1-1.8 mm.

and lower cauline leaf blades cordate-ovate, 3-foliolate, 5-8 × 3-6(-7) cm, leaflets again cleft or parted, leaflet base obtuse to acute, margins dentate, apex rounded to acute.

roots absent.

= 16.