Flora of North America species comparison

yellow to light brown, fibrous, from stout caudex.

few, blackish, filiform or somewhat tuberous.

erect, 30-80 cm, glabrous or glandular.

erect, not scapose, 15-50(-60) 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: leaflets reniform to obovate, apically 4-7-lobed, 10-30 mm wide, lobe margins crenate, surfaces abaxially glaucous.

terminal and axillary, panicles to corymbs, many flowered.

panicles or nearly corymbs, 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.

pedicels very slender, elongate;

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

filaments white, 2.5-4 mm;

anthers 0.3-0.5 mm.

(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.

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.