Flora of North America species comparison

solitary, erect, straight;

branches distal, distal longest, antrorse, straight; hairy.

5–25 cm.

blade 31–92(–157) × 10.5–27.6(–41) mm, widest intersinus distance 5.2–23.3(–29) mm;

proximal lanceolate or elliptic, margins serrate to pinnate, teeth or lobes 8–22, slightly antrorse, 1.8–6 mm;

distal lanceolate, base clasping, margins usually serrate to pinnate, occasionally entire, teeth or lobes (0–)10–20, slightly antrorse, 1.4–7.6 mm;

abaxial surface with simple grappling-hook, complex grappling-hook, and needlelike trichomes, adaxial surface with simple grappling-hook and needlelike trichomes.

petiole absent;

blade ovate or obovate, to 45 × 35 mm, intersinus distance 2–4 mm.

margins entire.

0(–1.5) mm.

petals golden yellow, 5.7–9.2 × 1.3–3 mm, apex usually acute, occasionally rounded, glabrous abaxially;

stamens golden yellow, 5 outermost petaloid, filaments narrowly spatulate, slightly clawed, 4.7–8.4 × 1–2.4 mm, without anthers, second whorl with anthers;

anthers straight after dehiscence, epidermis smooth;

styles 3.5–5.4 mm.

petals yellow to orange, narrowly spatulate to obovate, 4.5–17 × 1.2–5 mm, apex rounded;

stamens 25–45, 7–21 mm;

styles 7–18 mm.

cylindric, 13.6–23.5 × 5.1–7.8 mm, base tapering, not or slightly longitudinally ridged.

3–7 × 3–4.5 mm.

coat anticlinal cell walls straight, papillae 4–17 per cell.

3–9 per capsule, edges prominently to inconspicuously ridged.

= 22.

= 28.