Flora of North America species comparison

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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