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

	plants less than 3 dm high; NOT [plants 0.5 –2 m high]
	stems herbaceous or somewhat woody at base, dying down annually; NOT [stems more or less woody]
	stems not prickly
	leaves merely lobed; NOT [leaves compound]
	leaves rounded, shallowly several-lobed; NOT [leaves 3-5 foliolate], NOT [leaves pedate]
	flowers unisexual; NOT [flowers mostly perfect]
	petals spreading; NOT [petals erect]

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

	shrubs; NOT [herbs, or with a woody base and otherwise herbaceous], NOT [small trees]
	plants generally taller than 5-15 cm
	leaves compound, distinctly divided into leaflets; NOT [leaves simple]; NOT [leaves lobed, not distinctly divided]
	leaves not linear-dissected; NOT [leaves dissected into linear divisions]
	leaves with 3-5 leaflets; NOT [leaves with 5-11 leaflets], NOT [leaves with 11-17 leaflets]
	sepal bractlets absent; NOT [bractlets alternating with the sepals]
	flowers white; NOT [flowers pink or yellow]
	carpels numerous; NOT [carpel 1], NOT [carpels mostly 5]
	ovary or ovaries superior; NOT [ovary inferior]
	hypanthium shaped like a saucer, cup or urn and free from the ovary; NOT [ovary enclosed in and adnate to the hypanthium]
	fruit more or less fleshy; NOT [fruit dry]
	carpels becoming drupelets (raspberry-like); NOT [carpels becoming achenes, enclosed in a fleshy receptacle]

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

	shrubs or trees; NOT [herbs]
	plants NOT climbing
	plants with normal leaves; NOT [succulent, spiny plants with leaves absent or scale-like, inconspicuous]; NOT [leaves all basal, and tubular or with tentacles for catching insects]
	leaves alternate; NOT [leaves opposite]
	leaves compound; NOT [leaves simple]
	leaflets NOT leathery
	leaflets NOT spinose-tipped
	flowers with two floral rings, and with each petal distinct from the others
	flowers perfect; NOT [flowers dioecious or perfect]
	petals 5; NOT [petal (standard) solitary]
	stamens numerous; NOT [stamens 5]
	fruit NOT a legume