Flora of North America species comparison

yellow to light brown, fibrous, from stout caudex.

erect, 30-80 cm, glabrous or glandular.

erect, 20-50 cm, glabrous, from rhizomes.

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 3-4x-ternately compound;

leaflets obovate to orbiculate, apically 3-5-lobed, 5-20 mm, lobe margins crenate, surfaces abaxially glabrous or glandular-puberulent.

terminal and axillary, panicles to corymbs, many flowered.

terminal, panicles, narrow and dense, 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 greenish white, lanceolate or broadly ovate to elliptic or obovate, 2-4 mm;

filaments colored, not white, (1.8-)3-5.5 mm;

anthers 2-3.5 mm, blunt to mucronate;

stigma commonly yellowish.

(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.

5-17, erect to spreading, not reflexed, nearly sessile;

stipe 0.1-0.3 mm;

body often distinctly curved, elliptic-oblong, nearly terete to slightly flattened, adaxial surface 3-4(-6) mm, glabrous to glandular, veins distinct, not anastomosing-reticulate;

beak 1.5-2.5(-3) mm.