Flora of North America species comparison

never tuberous.

erect, never rooting nodally, hispid or glabrous, base not bulbous.

erect, pilose.

cordate to reniform in outline, 3-parted or sometimes 3-foliolate, 1.8-5.6 × 2.8-8.3 cm, segments again lobed, ultimate segments elliptic to lanceolate, margins toothed or crenate-toothed, apex acute to rounded-obtuse.

receptacle glabrous;

sepals reflexed or sometimes spreading, 2-3.5 × 1-2 mm, pubescent;

petals 5, yellow, 2-4(-6) × 1-2(-3) mm.

pedicellate;

receptacle glabrous;

sepals 5, spreading, 1.1-1.8 × 0.5-1 mm, pilose;

petals 0-5, 1.3-2 × 0.3-0.7 mm.

globose or hemispheric, 4-7 × 4-7 mm;

achenes 2-2.8 × 1.6-2 mm, glabrous or sparsely hispid, margin forming narrow rib 0.1-0.2 mm wide;

beak persistent, lanceolate, curved, hooked, 1.2-2.5 mm.

discoid, 4-6 × 3 mm;

achenes 4-9 per head, 1.7-2.3 × 1.7-2 mm, faces and margin papillose, each papilla crowned with hooked bristle, otherwise glabrous;

beak lanceolate, hooked distally, 0.5-0.7 mm.

and lower cauline leaf blades cordate-reniform, deeply 3-parted, 0.6-2.3 × 1.2-3.5 cm, segments undivided or 2-4-lobed, base shallowly cordate, margins entire or 2-4-dentate, apex of ultimate segments acute.

= 28.