Flora of North America species comparison

not thickened basally, canescent.

erect or reclining, hispid or sometimes glabrous.

erect or ascending, not rooting nodally, glabrous.

narrowly elliptic to linear, 2.5-4.8 × 0.2-0.9 cm, base narrowly acuminate, margins entire, apex acute to acuminate.

bracts lanceolate to linear.

pedicellate;

receptacle hispid;

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

petals 5, 4-5 × 2-3 mm.

receptacle glabrous;

sepals 5, spreading or reflexed from base, 3-5 × 1-2 mm, glabrous;

petals 5, 4-6 × 1-2 mm;

nectary scales glabrous.

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, 2-4 × 3-5 mm;

achenes 1-1.4 × 0.8 mm, glabrous;

beak subulate, straight, 0.2-0.4 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.