Flora of North America species comparison

erect to decumbent, to 30 cm.

petiole 10–65 mm;

blade hastate to ovate, usually basally lobed, sometimes unlobed, to 18 × 10 cm, base cuneate to truncate, margins serrate to crenate, apex acute.

not persisting.

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

blade lanceolate to linear (proximal leaves), ovate to lanceolate (distal leaves), to 6 cm, margins dentate or entire (proximal leaves), entire (distal leaves).

green, ovate to elliptic, 5–8.5 × 2–5 mm, width 2/5–3/5 length, not concealing capsule, margins entire.

(fruiting) 1–3 × 2 mm (often appearing absent because thick and continuous with capsule).

sepals 3–5.5 mm;

petals yellow to orange proximally, yellow distally, 8–12 mm, apex rounded;

stamens 20+, 3–8 mm, filaments monomorphic, filiform, unlobed;

styles 7–9 mm.

petals orange or yellow, 5–15 × 3–7 mm, apex cuspidate, hairy abaxially at apex;

stamens 20–30, 5 mm, filaments heteromorphic, 5 outermost narrowly spatulate, inner filiform;

style 5 mm.

cylindric or clavate, 5–22 × 2–4 mm, axillary curved to 45° at maturity, often prominently longitudinally ribbed.

subcylindric to clavate, 9–30 × 3–3.5 mm, base tapering gradually, capsule and pedicel not well-differentiated.

15–25, in 2+ rows distal to mid fruit, tan, dark-mottled, irregularly polygonal, surface smooth to minutely tessellate under 10x magnification; recurved flap over hilum absent;

seed coat cell outer periclinal wall flat to slightly convex.

5–9 per capsule, pyriform to oblong, without transverse folds.

= 36.

= 20.