Flora of North America species comparison

cylindric, 2-3 mm thick.

slender, 0.4-1 mm thick.

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

erect from short caudices, 3-20 cm, sparsely pilose to glabrous, each with 1-3 flowers.

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.

persistent, blades transversely elliptic to orbiculate, 1-3 × 1-3 cm, base obtuse to nearly truncate, margins crenate or else blades shallowly 3-lobed with crenate lateral lobes, apex rounded or rounded-apiculate.

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.

pedicels sparsely brown-pilose;

receptacle brown-pilose;

sepals 6-8 × 3-6 mm, abaxially densely brown-hispid;

petals 5(-6), 8-12 × 6-10 mm;

nectary scale 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.

ovoid-cylindric or ovoid, 6-7(-9) × 5-6 mm;

achenes 1.8-2.2 × 1.4-1.8 mm, glabrous or sparsely brown-hispid;

beak slender, straight or curved, 0.8-1.4 mm.

= 42, ca. 80, ca. 84, 96, ca. 98.