Flora of North America species comparison

yellow to light brown, fibrous, from stout caudex.

brown, thick, tuberous.

erect, 30-80 cm, glabrous or glandular.

decumbent, 20-40 cm, glabrous.

blade 1-4x-ternately compound;

leaflets reniform or cordate to obovate or orbiculate, apically 3-12-lobed, 10-45 mm wide, lobe margins often crenate, surfaces abaxially glabrous or glandular.

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.

terminal and axillary, panicles to corymbs, many flowered.

terminal, racemes, few flowered.

sepals greenish to purple, ovate or obovate to oval, 1.8-4 mm;

filaments yellow to greenish yellow, 3.5-5.5 mm;

anthers 2-4 mm, mucronate to acuminate;

stigma purple.

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-)7–13, not reflexed, sessile or nearly so;

stipe terete, 0-0.2 mm;

body ovoid to ellipsoid, not laterally compressed, 3.5-5 mm, glabrous, very strongly veined, veins not anastomosing-reticulate;

beak 1.5-3 mm.

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.