Flora of North America species comparison

erect, unbranched or branched distally, 1.5–7 dm.

erect, unbranched or branched distally, (woody at base when subshrubs), 1.5–8 dm.

blade linear to linear-oblanceolate, 1.5–6(–8) cm × 2–8 mm, base attenuate, margins entire or dentate, apex acute.

(rosulate when biennial, often withered by fruiting), similar to cauline.

(distal) sessile;

blade margins entire or denticulate.

petiolate;

blade (obovate to oblanceolate, 4–22 cm × 3–12 mm, base cuneate to attenuate), margins entire to repand.

elongated or not in fruit.

considerably elongated in fruit.

sepals oblong to linear-oblong, 4–6 mm, lateral pair slightly saccate basally;

petals yellow, oblanceolate, 6–9(–11) × 1–2 mm, claw 5–7 mm, apex rounded;

median filaments 5–7 mm;

anthers narrowly oblong to linear, 1–2 mm.

sepals oblong, 6–10 mm, lateral pair not or slightly saccate basally;

petals orange, yellow, brown, red, purple, violet, or white, broadly obovate to suborbicular, 20–35x 5–10 mm, claw 7–12 mm, apex rounded;

median filaments 7–9 mm;

anthers linear, 2.5–3.5 mm.

divaricate-ascending to ascending, stout, slightly narrower than fruit, 4–9(–15) mm.

divaricate-ascending to ascending, slender, narrower than fruit, 7–13 mm.

ascending to divaricate-ascending, (not appressed to rachis), narrowly linear, straight, not torulose, 3–5.8(–7) cm × 1–1.5(–1.8) mm, slightly 4-angled or terete, not striped;

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

ovules 36–66 per ovary;

style cylindrical, stout, 0.7–3 mm, moderately to sparsely pubescent;

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

ascending, narrowly linear, straight, not torulose, 3–10 cm × 2–7 mm, latiseptate to terete, not striped;

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

ovules 32–44 per ovary;

style cylindrical or subconical, slender, 0.5–4 mm, pubescent;

stigma strongly 2-lobed, lobes much longer than wide.

ovoid, 1.2–1.7 × 0.8–1 mm;

not winged or wing apiculate.

ovate, 2–4 × 1.5–3 mm;

wing continuous or distal.

of leaves 2- or 3-rayed.

-chomes of leaves 2-rayed, rarely mixed with fewer 3-rayed ones apically.

= 81.

= 12.