Flora of North America species comparison

yellow to light brown, fibrous, from stout caudex.

erect, 30-80 cm, glabrous or glandular.

weakly erect to reclining, 10-30 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: basal usually ternately compound, distal gradually less divided;

leaflets nearly orbiculate to orbiculate-reniform, apically 4-7-lobed, 20-30 mm wide, lobe margins crenate, surfaces abaxially glaucescent.

terminal and axillary, panicles to corymbs, many flowered.

panicles, 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 white, spatulate to rhombic-spatulate, 1.5 mm;

filaments white, 2-3 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 2.5-3.5 mm, nearly as long as achene body;

body flat, 2.5-4 mm, abaxial margin convex, adaxial margin straight, conspicuously 3-veined on each face;

beak minute.