Flora of North America species comparison

cylindric, 2-3 mm thick.

not thickened basally, glabrous or somewhat canescent proximally.

prostrate or ascending, 5-20 cm, glabrous, each with 1-6 flowers.

erect or ascending, rooting at proximal nodes, glabrous or sparsely hirsute.

persistent, blades rhombic to deltate or reniform in outline, 3-4x-dissected, 1.1-3.4 × 2-3.1 cm, segments linear, base obtuse, margins crenate, apices of segments narrowly rounded.

lanceolate, 5.9-12.2 × 1.1-2.4 cm, base rounded-obtuse to acuminate, margins denticulate, apex acuminate.

bracts linear or lanceolate.

pedicels glabrous;

receptacle short-pubescent;

sepals 4-8 × 2-5 mm, abaxially glabrous or nearly so;

petals 5, 6-15 × 4-10 mm;

nectary scale glabrous.

receptacle glabrous;

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

petals 5, 5-8 × 2-3 mm;

nectary scales glabrous.

depressed-globose, 4-6 × 5-8 mm;

achenes 1.8-2.2 × 1.2-1.8 mm, finely pubescent;

beak subulate, straight, 0.8-1.5 mm.

short-ovoid to depressed-globose, 5-7 × 4-8 mm;

achenes 1.8 × 1.2-1.4 mm, glabrous;

beak lanceolate, straight, 0.6-1.2 mm.