Flora of North America species comparison

erect, unbranched or branched distally, 0.2–2.5(–3.5) dm.

erect, unbranched or branched distally, 0.4–9(–13) dm.

blade (fleshy or not), spatulate, 2–10 cm × 5–15 mm, base cuneate, margins dentate, entire, or lobed, apex obtuse.

blade (somewhat fleshy), linear-oblanceolate, 3.5–15.5 cm × 2–9 mm, base attenuate, margins entire or obscurely dentate, apex acute.

(distal) sessile or short-petiolate;

blade margins entire or dentate.

blade (oblanceolate), margins entire.

elongated slightly in fruit.

considerably elongated in fruit.

sepals oblong, 7–14 mm, lateral pair saccate basally;

petals yellow, usually suborbicular, rarely obovate, 15–30 × 6–14 mm, claw 10–15 mm, apex rounded;

median filaments 10–13 mm;

anthers linear, 3–4 mm.

sepals oblong to linear-oblong, 7.5–11(–13) mm, lateral pair slightly saccate basally;

petals bright yellow, broadly obovate to suborbicular, 14–24 × 6–11(–14) mm, claw 8–14 mm, apex rounded;

median filaments 8.5–12 mm;

anthers linear, 3–4 mm.

horizontal to divaricate, slender, narrower than fruit, 4–15 mm.

divaricate to divaricate-ascending, stout, slightly narrower than fruit, 4–10(–13) mm.

widely spreading or divaricate, linear, straight, not torulose, 3–14 cm × 2–4 mm, terete when green, becoming latiseptate when dry, not striped;

valves with obscure midvein, pubescent outside, trichomes (2 or) 3 or 4 (or 6)-rayed, glabrous inside;

ovules 32–74 per ovary;

style cylindrical, slender, 0.3–2 mm, sparsely pubescent;

stigma 2-lobed, lobes as long as wide.

spreading, narrowly linear, straight, not torulose, (2–)3.5–12 cm × 1.5–3.5 mm, latiseptate, not striped;

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

ovules 50–86 per ovary;

style cylindrical, stout, 0.3–1.5(–2) mm, sparsely pubescent;

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

oblong (compressed), 1.8–2.8(–3.5) × 1–2 mm; winged distally (wing narrow all around).

oblong, 1.5–3 × 1–1.8 mm; winged distally (narrowly so around).

of leaves 2–5(–7)-rayed on adaxial leaf surface.

of leaves 2–4(–7)-rayed.

= 36.

= 36.