Aleppicum: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this species. 

	cauline leaves several; NOT [leaves mostly basal, cauline leaves few (2)]
	cauline leaves alternate; NOT [cauline leaves opposite]
	leaves lyrately pinnate; NOT [leaves pinnate]
	terminal segment of basal leaves cuneate at base; NOT [terminal segment of basal leaves cordate or rounded at base]
	terminal segment of basal leaves deeply incised; NOT [terminal segment of basal leaves 3-lobed]
	flowers erect; NOT [flowers nodding]
	sepals reflexed; NOT [sepals erect or spreading]
	sepals 3-8 mm long; NOT [sepals 7-10 mm long]
	petals yellow; NOT [petals purplish, flesh-colored, or purple-veined]
	style jointed
	upper portion of style less than one-third the length of lower part; NOT [upper part of style at least half as long as lower part]
	style NOT glandular; NOT [style glandular-pubescent, at least below]
	upper portion of style hairy; NOT [upper portion of style not hairy, or with only a few stiff hairs] (BF)
	style hooked in fruit
	style NOT plumose in fruit

Geum: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora  and Flora of Alberta leading to this genus. 

	herbs, or with a woody base and otherwise herbaceous; NOT [shrubs or trees]
	leaves compound; NOT [leaves simple, usually toothed], NOT [leaves much dissected into linear lobes]
	basal leaves with more than 3 leaflets; NOT [basal leaves with 3 leaflets]
	hypanthium LACKING hooked bristles
	calyx double, with 2 rings of lobes, the outer ones smaller than the inner; NOT [calyx simple, of 5 lobes]
	petals usually longer than the sepals; NOT [petals small, little if any longer than the sepals]
	stamens 10-many; NOT [stamens 5]
	carpels 10-many; NOT [carpels 2], NOT [carpels 5-20]
	style not articulated at base or deciduous but persisting in the fruit; NOT [style articulated at base and deciduous from the achenes]
	style much longer than the achene; NOT [style much shorter than the achene]
	style often with an abrupt bend or joint near the middle
	style hooked or plumose in fruit
	carpels becoming achenes (sometimes on a fleshy receptacle); NOT [carpels becoming drupelets (raspberry-like)]

Rosaceae: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora  leading to this family. 

	herbs; NOT [shrubs or trees]
	plants terrestrial or semiaquatic; NOT [plants aquatic, leaves submerged or floating]
	plants NOT with colored milky juice
	flower with more than one normal leaf
	some or all leaves alternate; NOT [leaves opposite, whorled, or basal]
	leaves with stipules; NOT [leaves without stipules, or having glands]
	flowers with two floral rings, and with each petal distinct from the others
	calyx regular; NOT [calyx irregular, some sepals smaller than others]
	flowers regular in shape; NOT [flowers irregular in shape]
	stamens usually numerous; NOT [stamens 5 or 10]
	stamens usually separate or partly so, not in  column; NOT [stamens numerous, united into a column]
	ovary of one or more carpels, either separate or enclosed by a fleshy receptacle; NOT [ovary of 5 united carpels]