Flora of North America species comparison

multiple, erect or decumbent, zigzag;

branches along entire stem, distal longest, antrorse, upcurved; hairy.

blade 8.1–29 × 4.1–12.7 mm, widest intersinus distance 4.1–7.4 mm;

proximal oblanceolate, margins entire;

distal elliptic, base not clasping, margins entire or dentate, teeth 0–8, perpendicular to leaf axis, 0.6–2.7 mm;

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

persisting;

petiole present or absent;

blade linear-lanceolate to linear, margins usually irregularly deeply lobed, lobes pointed.

petiole absent;

blade ovate-lanceolate to linear, to 15(–22) cm, margins few-lobed or entire.

green, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 2.9–8.2 × 1.1–1.9 mm, width 1/8–1/2 length, not concealing capsule, margins entire.

margins entire.

sepals 2–6 mm;

petals yellow to orange proximally, yellow distally, 3–8 mm, apex rounded or acute apex;

stamens 20–40, 2–7 mm, filaments monomorphic, filiform, unlobed;

styles 2–6 mm.

petals golden yellow, 12.5–17.2 × 6.1–11.2 mm, apex rounded to obtuse, glabrous abaxially;

stamens golden yellow, 5 outermost petaloid, filaments narrowly spatulate, strongly clawed, 7–9.5 × 2.7–6 mm, with anthers, second whorl with anthers;

anthers straight after dehiscence, epidermis smooth;

styles 7–10 mm.

clavate, 11–31 × 1.5–3 mm, axillary curved to 250° at maturity, usually inconspicuously longitudinally ribbed.

cup-shaped, 7–10 × 6.5–8 mm, base rounded, not longitudinally ridged.

15–50, in 2+ rows distal to mid fruit, tan, usually not, occasionally sparsely, dark-mottled, usually irregularly polygonal, occasionally triangular prisms proximal to mid fruit, surface colliculate 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.

coat anticlinal cell walls straight, papillae 9–13 per cell.

= 36.