Flora of North America species comparison

basal and cauline, (cauline 1–4);

petiole absent;

blade linear (cauline) or oblong to oblanceolate or spatulate, unlobed, 2–8.5 mm, fleshy, margins (recurved), entire, eciliate, apex obtuse, not mucronate, surfaces glabrous or glabrate.

basal and cauline;

petiole ± flattened, 10–70 mm, (± hairy);

blade reniform, 5–7(–11)-lobed (lobes obtuse, sometimes acute), (5–)7.4–11.2(–20) mm, slightly fleshy, margins entire, sparsely glandular-ciliate or eciliate, apex rounded to obtuse, surfaces glabrous or sparsely short stipitate-glandular.

solitary flowers, 2–7 cm, sparsely to densely pink- to purple-tipped stipitate-glandular;

bracts sessile.

2–6(–29)-flowered, capitate thyrses, sometimes solitary flowers, (flowers subsessile), (3–)5–15(–18) cm, densely tangled, reddish brown-hairy;

bracts (5–10), petiolate, (3–7-lobed, densely surrounding inflorescence).

sepals erect to spreading (reflexed in fruit, often purplish), broadly ovate to elliptic, margins eciliate or sometimes sparsely ciliate, surfaces glabrous;

petals pale yellow, rarely purple, faded when dried, not spotted, elliptic to obovate, 4–8 mm, longer than sepals;

ovary superior.

(hypanthium U-shaped in longisection);

sepals erect, oblong to ovate, margins ± glandular-ciliate, surfaces glabrous or sparsely short stipitate-glandular;

petals white, not spotted, ± broadly elliptic to obovate, 2–5(–6.5) mm, ± equaling sepals;

ovary ca. 1/2 inferior.

= 16 (Russia).

= 26 (Russian Far East).