Flora of North America species comparison

brownish, fusiform-tuberous with dried ribs.

erect, scapose, or nearly scapose with very slender rhizomes, (3-)5-20(-30) cm, glabrous.

reclining, branched and flexible proximally, 10-40 cm, glabrous.

blade 2x-pinnately compound, proximal primary divisions ternate;

leaflets cuneate-obovate to orbiculate, apically 3-5-lobed, 2-10 mm, surfaces glabrous.

blade: leaflets ovate or obovate to reniform or orbiculate, apically shallowly to deeply 3-7-lobed, rarely undivided, 4-15 mm wide, surfaces glabrous.

racemes, usually elongate, few flowered.

terminal and axillary, panicles, elongate, few flowered.

pedicels recurved in fruit;

sepals early deciduous, purplish tinged, ovate or elliptic, 1-2.3(-2.7) mm;

stamens 8-15;

filaments purple;

anthers bright yellow, 1.5-3 mm;

stigmas purple.

sepals whitish, lanceolate to obovate, 1.5-2.7 mm;

filaments colored, not white, 1.5-2 mm;

anthers 1.7-2.5 mm, mucronate;

stigma color unknown.

2-6, nearly sessile;

body lance-obovoid, 2-3.5 mm, with thick veins.

1-6, not reflexed, nearly sessile;

stipe 0.1-0.3 mm;

body oblong to elliptic-lanceolate, not compressed, 3-3.7 × 0.7-1.2 mm, glabrous, prominently 6-8-veined, veins not anastomosing;

beak 1.3-2 mm.

= 14, 21.