Flora of North America species comparison

yellow to light brown, fibrous, from stout caudex.

bright yellow, tuberous.

erect, 30-80 cm, glabrous or glandular.

erect, coarse, 65-150 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 1-4x-ternately compound;

leaflets reniform or obovate to orbiculate, apically 3-9-lobed or toothed, 10-75 mm wide, lobe margins crenate, surfaces abaxially glabrous or glandular.

terminal and axillary, panicles to corymbs, many flowered.

panicles, pyramidal, loosely branched, many 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 white to purplish, lanceolate-ovate, 1.5-5.5 mm;

filaments maroon, 4-4.5 mm;

anthers 2-5.5 mm, apiculate, subulate-tipped;

stigma maroon.

(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.

3-15, erect, not reflexed, stipitate;

stipe ± wing-angled, 0.7-2.5 mm;

body obliquely ovoid to ellipsoid, not laterally compressed, 3-6.5 mm, strongly veined or ribbed, veins not anastomosing;

beak 1.5-3 mm.