Flora of North America species comparison

few, blackish, filiform or somewhat tuberous.

brown, thick, tuberous.

erect, not scapose, 15-50(-60) cm, glabrous.

decumbent, 20-40 cm, glabrous.

blade: leaflets reniform to obovate, apically 4-7-lobed, 10-30 mm wide, lobe margins crenate, surfaces abaxially glaucous.

blade 1-3x-ternately compound;

leaflets ovate to obovate to reniform or orbiculate, 3-(or more)-lobed, largest leaflets less than 15 mm wide, lobe margins crenate, surfaces glabrous.

panicles or nearly corymbs, few flowered.

terminal, racemes, few flowered.

pedicels very slender, elongate;

sepals white, obovate-spatulate, 2.5-4 mm;

filaments white, 2.5-4 mm;

anthers 0.3-0.5 mm.

sepals whitish, ovate or elliptic, 0.9-2.8(-3) mm;

filaments colored, 2-3 mm;

anthers 1.8-2.3 mm, mucronate, tip 0.1-0.4 mm;

stigma color unknown.

3-8, spreading;

stipe 1-3(-4) mm, usually ± 1/2 as long (sometimes nearly as long) as achene body;

body flat, falcate, 3-5 mm, abaxially convex, adaxially concave, conspicuously 3-veined on each face;

beak minute.

few, not reflexed, nearly sessile;

stipe 0.1-0.3 mm;

body ellipsoid to oblong, 3.5-4.5 × 1.5-2 mm, glabrous, veins 10-12, not anastomosing-reticulate;

beak (1.3-)2.3-3 mm.