Flora of North America species comparison

erect, often branched distally, (woody at base), 0.6–5(–6) dm.

erect, unbranched or branched basally and/or distally, (0.8–)1.5–7(–9.4) dm.

(often withered in suffrutescent plants);

blade oblanceolate to oblanceolate-linear, 2.5–17 cm × (2–)3–16(–20) mm, base attenuate, margins sinuate-dentate or dentate, apex acute.

blade oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, 2–7 cm × 2–7 mm, base attenuate, margins entire or denticulate, apex acute.

(distal) petiolate;

blade margins usually dentate, rarely denticulate.

sessile;

blade margins entire or denticulate.

considerably elongated in fruit.

(densely flowered), elongated or not in fruit.

sepals oblong to linear-oblong, 8–12(–15) mm, lateral pair saccate basally;

petals yellow to cream, obovate to suborbicular, 14–29 × 5–12(–15) mm, claw 9–17 mm, apex rounded;

median filaments 9–15 mm;

anthers linear, 2.5–4 mm.

sepals linear-oblong, 5–8 mm, lateral pair saccate basally;

petals yellow, narrowly obovate to spatulate, (8–)10–15 × (2–)2.5–4 mm, claw 6–9 mm, apex rounded;

median filaments 6–10 mm;

anthers narrowly linear, 1.7–2 mm.

divaricate to ascending, stout, narrower than fruit, 5–17(–22) mm.

usually ascending, rarely divaricate-ascending, stout, slightly narrower than fruit, (often crowded), 4–7(–10) mm.

usually ascending, rarely spreading, narrowly linear, straight or curved upward, not or, rarely, slightly torulose, (3.8–)4–11(–14) cm × 2–4 mm, latiseptate, not striped;

valves with somewhat prominent midvein, pubescent outside, trichomes (2 or) 3 (or 4)-rayed, glabrous inside;

ovules 32–64 per ovary;

style cylindrical, slender, 0.5–3.5 mm, sparsely pubescent;

stigma 2-lobed, lobes as long as wide.

suberect to ascending, (subappressed to rachis or not), narrowly linear, straight, not torulose, 2.5–5.8(–6.4) cm × 1.8–2.5 mm, slightly 4-angled, not striped;

valves with somewhat prominent midvein, pubescent outside, trichomes 2–4-rayed, glabrous inside;

ovules 40–56 per ovary;

style stout, 0.5–1.5 mm, moderately to sparsely pubescent;

stigma strongly 2-lobed, lobes as long as wide.

oblong, 2–3.5(–4) × 1.2–2.2(–2.5) mm;

wing distal, present on 1 or both margins.

ovoid to oblong, 1.5–2 × 1–1.2 mm;

not winged.

of leaves 2-rayed mixed with 3(–5)-rayed ones.

of leaves 2- (or 3-) rayed.

= 36.

= 54.