Flora of North America species comparison

profusely branched (erect or spreading and matlike); glaucous, scabrous.

profusely branched at base (usually spreading or mat-like, sometimes erect); moderately to densely hairy (sometimes spreading-hispidulous).

stipules finely divided into crinkled threads, 2 mm;

petiole 0.1–0.3 cm;

leaflet blade linear-obovate, 0.5–1.5 × 0.1–0.3 cm, fleshy, margins entire, apex obtuse to acute, mucronate, surfaces scabrous.

stipules finely divided into crinkled threads, 5–7 mm;

petiole 0.7–0.8(–2) cm;

leaflet blade elliptic to obovate, 0.5–1.5 × 0.2–0.8 cm, thin, margins entire, apex obtuse to rounded, mucronulate, surfaces spreading-hispidulous.

solitary flowers in axils of closely spaced leaves throughout;

bracts unifoliate, 8–10 mm.

racemes, terminating stems and branches (solitary flowers in leaf axils of distal stems), 0.5–1.2 cm (0.5–1 cm in fruit);

bracts unifoliate, 2–7 mm.

reflexed in fruit, 1–2 mm.

ascending in fruit, 4–10 mm (3–12 mm in fruit).

sepals green, ovate, 0.8–1.2 × 0.3–0.7 mm, glabrous;

petals pale yellow, oblong, 1.5–2 × 0.5–1 mm, glabrous;

stamens yellow, 1.5–2.2 mm;

anthers 0.3–0.5 mm;

gynophore strongly reflexed, 0.5–3 mm in fruit;

ovary globose, 1–1.5 mm;

style 2–3(–5) mm.

sepals green, ovate-deltate, 1–1.5(–2.3) × 0.9–1.2 mm, sparsely hairy;

petals yellow or orange, oblong, 3.5–6 × 1.2–2 mm, sparsely hairy abaxially;

stamens yellow, 8–14 mm;

anthers 1.5–2.2 mm;

gynophore reflexed, 4–5 mm in fruit;

ovary ± rhomboidal, 1–1.5 mm;

style 2–3(–5) mm.

globose or deltoid, 2–3 × 2–3.2 mm, glabrous, (valves triangular).

rhomboidal, 3.5–4 × 7–10 mm (striate), strigose.

1–4, yellowish, globose, 1.3–1.7 mm, smooth.

(1–)2–6, light brown to gray with black mottling, globose, 1.5 mm, smooth.