Flora of North America species comparison

simple from base, decumbent to nearly prostrate, 0.5–1.3 dm.

several from base, decumbent, (arising laterally, unbranched), 1–3 dm.

(strongly rosulate; shortly petiolate);

blade broadly obovate, 1.5–7.5 (width 7.5–26 mm, base gradually tapering to petiole), margins shallowly dentate, (apex obtuse).

(numerous); (petiole slender, rarely with a few broad teeth);

blade obovate, 3–7 cm, margins entire.

blade oblanceolate to broadly obovate, 1–2.5 cm, margins entire.

blade oblanceolate, 1.5–3 cm, margins entire.

dense.

loose.

sepals (pale yellow or yellow-green), narrowly lanceolate to narrowly deltate, 4–8 mm;

petals yellow, broadly spatulate to obovate, 9–13 mm, (not clawed).

sepals oblong, 5–7 mm;

petals (yellow to purplish), spatulate, 8–12 mm.

(divaricate-ascending to widely spreading, slightly sigmoid to curved), 7–12 mm.

(ascending or spreading, slightly curved or sigmoid), 1–2 cm.

didymous, slightly flattened (contrary to replum) to uncompressed, 4–9 × 2–8 mm, (strongly coriaceous, apical and basal sinuses narrow, deep);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), pubescent, trichomes appressed;

replum narrowly oblanceolate to narrowly linear-oblong, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex obtuse;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style more than 3 mm.

obcordate, angustiseptate, somewhat inflated, (not bladdery), 5–7 × 6–9 mm, (papery, basal sinus absent, apical sinus broad and open);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), loosely pubescent, trichomes spreading;

replum ovate, 5–7 mm, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex acute or obtuse;

ovules 4–6 per ovary;

style 5–7 mm.

compressed.

= 8.