Flora of North America species comparison

cylindric, 2-3 mm thick.

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

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

basal leaf blades semicircular or reniform in outline, shallowly 5-7-lobed, 1.2-4.6 × 1.8-6.6 cm, ultimate segments semicircular, margins crenate, apex rounded or weakly apiculate;

cauline leaves 0-2, scalelike.

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.

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 spreading, white or pale yellow, 6-13 × 3-6 mm, glabrous;

petals 8-12, greenish, 2-4 × 0.6-1.6 mm.

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.

ovoid, 6-7 × 6-8 mm;

achenes 3.8-4.2 × 0.8-1 mm, canescent;

beak persistent, filiform, 1.2-1.4 mm, hooked distally.

roots absent.