Flora of North America species comparison

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

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

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

(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.

(distal) sessile;

blade margins entire or denticulate.

(distal) petiolate;

blade margins usually dentate, rarely denticulate.

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 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.

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

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

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.

ovoid, 1.2–1.7 × 0.8–1 mm;

not winged or wing apiculate.

oblong, 2–3.5(–4) × 1.2–2.2(–2.5) mm;

wing distal, present on 1 or both margins.

of leaves 2- or 3-rayed.

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

= 81.

= 36.