Flora of North America species comparison

erect, sparsely or moderately hairy, hairs appressed, 4(–6)-rayed, normally bilateral and swollen-based.

stipules persistent, linear, 3–5 × 0.3 mm, apex acuminate;

petiole 5–10 mm;

blade lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, unlobed, 2.5–3.5 × 0.5–1 cm, not much reduced distally, at least 3 times longer than wide, 3–4 times longer than petiole, base rounded to cuneate, margins sparsely serrate-dentate, apex acute, surfaces stellate-hairy, hairs scattered, appressed, (2–)4–6(–8)-rayed, reduced to simple hairs at margins.

axillary solitary flowers in distal 1/2 of plant;

floral bracts absent.

2–4(–10) mm, to 5–8(–17) mm in fruit;

involucellar bractlets free from or basally adnate to calyx for 0.5–1 mm, narrowly lanceolate to linear, subfalcate, 3–7 × 0.3–0.6 mm, 1/2 times length of calyx lobes, apex acuminate.

calyx connate 2/5–1/2 its length, broadly campanulate, distinctly plicate-angular due to prolonged reniform-auriculate lobe bases, 5–7 mm, accrescent to 8–10 mm, somewhat inflated in fruit, surface hairy, hairs both 4–6-rayed, stellate and simple to 2-rayed marginal;

corolla wide-spreading, yellow to pale yellow-orange, 5 mm diam., petals asymmetrically obovate, shallowly lobed, 3–4.5 × 2–3.5 mm, subequal to or exceeding calyx by 0.5–1 mm;

staminal column 1–1.6 mm, glabrous;

style 5- or 6-branched.

2–2.5 mm.

6–8 mm diam.;

mericarps readily shed from calyx, 5 or 6, 2.6–3.5 × 2.6–3.5 × 1.5 mm, dehiscent, separating into 2 valves, short-notched, mucro absent, hairy, hairs both minute, simple and longer erect, simple, to 1 mm on proximal-apical surface, sides rounded, smooth and unribbed.

= 36.