Flora of North America species comparison

fibrous.

erect, 6-18(-20) dm, glabrous.

weakly erect to reclining, 10-30 cm, glabrous.

blade 3-4x-ternately compound;

leaflets orbiculate to obovate, apically 3-cleft or 3-parted, divisions undivided or shallowly 3-lobed, 15-40 mm wide, lobes rounded or somewhat acute, surfaces 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, panicles, many flowered.

panicles, few flowered.

sepals whitish to purplish, elliptic to ovate or lanceolate, 2-4(-5) mm;

filaments whitish to pinkish, 3-6 mm;

anthers (1.4-)2-4 mm, distinctly apiculate.

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

filaments white, 2-3 mm;

anthers 0.3-0.5 mm.

10-15, spreading in globose heads, not reflexed, sessile or nearly so;

stipe 0-0.6 mm;

body nearly globose to obovoid to obliquely obovate, laterally compressed, somewhat inflated and papery, 4-7(-8) mm, glabrous to glandular, often with 1 or 2 primary veins on each side, veins sinuous, branched, anastomosing-reticulate;

beak 2-4 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.