Flora of North America species comparison

erect or reclining, hispid or sometimes glabrous.

erect to decumbent, not rooting nodally, glabrous, not bulbous-based, spheric or ellipsoid bulbils sometimes formed in leaf axils.

simple and undivided, blades cordate to deltate or semicircular, 1.8-3.7 × 2-4 cm, base cordate, margins entire or crenate, apex rounded or obtuse.

pedicellate;

receptacle hispid;

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

petals 5, 4-5 × 2-3 mm.

receptacle glabrous;

sepals spreading, saccate at extreme base, 4-9 × 3-6 mm, glabrous;

petals yellow, 10-15 × 3-7 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, 4-5 × 6-8 mm;

achenes 2.6-2.8 × 1.8-2 mm, pubescent;

beak absent.

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 present.