Flora of North America species comparison

persisting;

petiole present or absent;

blade linear-lanceolate to linear, margins deeply lobed to dentate.

persisting;

petiole present or absent;

blade linear-lanceolate to linear, margins usually deeply to shallowly lobed, rarely entire.

petiole absent;

blade ovate-lanceolate to linear, to 15 cm, margins deeply to shallowly lobed or entire.

petiole present or absent (proximal leaves), absent (distal leaves);

blade linear-lanceolate to linear (proximal leaves), ovate-lanceolate (distal leaves), to 9 cm, margins deeply to shallowly lobed or entire.

green, ovate to lanceolate, 3.7–5.9 × 0.8–3.9 mm, width 1/8–2/3 length, not concealing capsule, margins entire.

mostly white with green margins, conspicuous and showy, outer broadly ovate, inner obovate, outer 7–14.7 × 4.2–10.4 mm, inner 4.1–5.8 × 2.7–3.5 mm, width 1/2–7/8 length, concealing capsule, margins usually deeply 3–9-lobed to toothed, rarely entire.

sepals (2–)4–8(–10) mm;

petals yellow to orange proximally, yellow distally, (6–)8–22 mm, apex acute to rounded;

stamens 20+, 3–10 mm, filaments monomorphic, filiform, unlobed;

styles 4–10 mm.

sepals 1–4 mm;

petals orange proximally, pale yellow to yellow distally, 2–8(–10) mm, apex retuse;

stamens 20–40, 1.5–5 mm, filaments monomorphic, filiform, unlobed;

styles 1.5–5 mm.

clavate, 15–38 × 2–4 mm, axillary curved to 180° or S-shaped at maturity, usually inconspicuously longitudinally ribbed.

cylindric or clavate, 5–12 × 2–3 mm, axillary curved to 10° at maturity, usually inconspicuously longitudinally ribbed.

15–30, in 2+ rows distal to mid fruit, tan, dark-mottled, usually irregularly polygonal, occasionally triangular prisms proximal to mid fruit, surface tuberculate under 10x magnification; recurved flap over hilum absent;

seed coat cell outer periclinal wall domed, domes on seed edges more than 1/2 as tall as wide at maturity.

10–25, in 2+ rows distal to mid fruit, tan, dark-mottled or not, irregularly polygonal, surface tessellate under 10x magnification; recurved flap over hilum absent;

seed coat cell outer periclinal wall domed, domes on seed edges less than 1/2 as tall as wide at maturity.

= 36, 54.

= 18.