Flora of North America species comparison

solitary, erect, straight;

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

blade 69–195 × 11.6–55.7 mm, widest intersinus distance 1.3–2.5(–3.5) mm;

proximal oblanceolate or elliptic, margins pinnatisect, lobes 16–26, slightly antrorse or perpendicular to leaf axis, 5.1–15.1 mm;

distal elliptic, base not clasping, margins pinnatisect, lobes 10–20, slightly antrorse or perpendicular to leaf axis, 6.2–12.3(–22.5) mm;

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

persisting;

petiole present or absent;

blade lanceolate to linear, margins deeply to shallowly lobed.

petiole absent;

blade ovate to linear, to 12 cm, margins deeply lobed to dentate.

green, ovate to lanceolate, 6.6–12.8 × 1.9–6.8 mm, width 1/5–2/3 length, not concealing capsule, margins 3–7-lobed.

margins entire.

sepals 3–13 mm;

petals red to orange proximally, orange to yellow distally, 8–22 mm, apex mucronate, rounded, or retuse;

stamens 20+, 4–11 mm, filaments monomorphic, filiform, unlobed;

styles 5–13 mm.

petals golden yellow, 30–42.2 × 5.7–10.8 mm, apex acute, glabrous abaxially;

stamens golden yellow, 5 outermost petaloid, filaments narrowly spatulate, slightly clawed, 27–37.4 × 4.8–9.7 mm, without anthers, second whorl with anthers;

anthers straight after dehiscence, epidermis smooth;

styles 24–32.4 mm.

clavate, 12–35 × 2–4 mm, axillary curved to 90° at maturity, usually inconspicuously longitudinally ribbed.

cylindric, 15–26 × 5–7.2 mm, base tapering to rounded, not longitudinally ridged.

20–40, in 2+ rows distal to mid fruit, tan, dark-mottled or not, 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.

coat anticlinal cell walls sinuous, papillae 8–12 per cell.

= 18.

= 20.