Flora of North America species comparison

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

ascending to sprawling, proximal branches terminating in sterile rosettes, (woody at base), 0.5–3 dm.

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

blade linear to linear-oblanceolate, (2–)3.7–9 cm × 2–5(–10) mm, base attenuate, margins usually entire, rarely sparsely denticulate, apex acute.

(distal) sessile or short-petiolate;

blade margins entire or dentate.

(distal) sessile;

similar to basal.

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, 6–10 mm, lateral pair slightly saccate basally;

petals yellow, broadly obovate to suborbicular, (11–)14–20(–22) × (3–)4–11.5 mm, claw 7–10 mm, apex rounded;

median filaments 7–10 mm;

anthers linear, 2–3 mm.

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

widely spreading, slender, narrower than fruit, (8–)10–22 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.

ascending to spreading, narrowly linear, straight or only slightly curved inward, not torulose, 2–5(–7) cm × 2–3 mm, angustiseptate, not striped;

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

ovules 36–50 per ovary;

style cylindrical or slightly flattened, stout, 1–4 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, 1–2 × 1.2–2 mm;

not winged.

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

-chomes of leaves primarily 2-rayed, sometimes mixed with 3-rayed ones.

= 36.

= 36.