Flora of North America species comparison

few from base, decumbent, (arising laterally proximal to current season’s leaves), 0.3–0.8 dm.

few to several from base, erect, (from basal tuft), 0.1–0.2(–0.3) dm, (not or just barely exceeding leaves).

(petiole slender);

blade broadly obovate, or deltate to ovate or narrower, 1.5–3.5 cm, (base abruptly to gradually narrowed to petiole), margins entire or obscurely few-toothed, (apex usually obtuse, nearly acute in narrower leaves).

blade spatulate to oblanceolate, 0.5–1.5 cm, (base gradually narrowed to petiole), margins entire.

(2–5 per stem);

blade oblanceolate to spatulate, similar to basal, margins entire, (apex acute).

(absent or few);

similar to basal, blade linear.

loose, (3–6-flowered).

dense, (few-flowered).

sepals narrowly oblong to linear, 7–9 mm;

petals (erect), spatulate, 10–12(–15) mm.

sepals (pale yellow), oblong to elliptic, 4–5 mm, (median pair usually thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (bright yellow), lingulate, 6–8 mm.

(widely spreading to ascending, slightly curved or straight), 7–11 mm.

(loosely sigmoid), 3–5 mm.

(usually purplish in age), didymous, irregular and somewhat angular, not highly inflated, 4–11 × 10–13 mm, (coriaceous, papery, shallowly grooved distally and on sides, tapered and narrowed toward replum, base obtuse to truncate, apex with broad sinus to nearly truncate);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), densely pubescent, not silvery;

replum elliptic to obovate, as wide as or wider than fruit, base rounded, margins sparsely pubescent or glabrous, apex rounded (with funicles);

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 5–7 mm, (glabrous).

lanceolate, compressed apically, 2.5–3(–4) mm;

valves pubescent, trichomes spreading, (appearing fuzzy), rarely with trichomes inside;

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style 2.5–4 mm.

flattened.

plump, (oblong).