Flora of North America species comparison

solitary, erect, straight;

branches mostly distal, proximal longer than distal, all usually extending to near the distal end of plant, antrorse, straight; hairy.

blade 22–115 × 2.8–10.9(–17.2) mm, widest intersinus distance 2.2–7(–9) mm;

proximal oblanceolate, elliptic, or lanceolate, margins dentate, teeth 10–24(–38), perpendicular to leaf axis, 0.5–4 mm;

distal elliptic to lanceolate, base not clasping, margins dentate, teeth 8–20, perpendicular to leaf axis, 0.3–5.6 mm;

abaxial surface with simple grappling-hook, complex grappling-hook, and usually with needlelike trichomes, adaxial surface with simple grappling-hook and 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, 8–14.4 × 2.1–3.9 mm, apex acute, hairy abaxially;

stamens golden yellow, 5 outermost petaloid, filaments narrowly spatulate, slightly clawed, 5.5–11.1 × 1.2–2.9 mm, with anthers, second whorl with anthers;

anthers straight after dehiscence, epidermis papillate;

styles 5.3–10 mm.

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

cylindric, 7–14.6 × 3.5–6.7 mm, base tapering, 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 straight to slightly wavy, papillae 4–10 per cell.

= 18.

= 20.