Flora of North America species comparison

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

few to several from base, erect, (usually exceeding basal leaves), 0.3–0.7 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).

blade linear-spatulate, 1.5–4 cm, (base narrowed gradually to petiole), margins entire.

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

blade spatulate, similar to basal.

dense.

crowded in distal 1/3, (4–10-flowered).

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 (pale yellow), oblong to elliptic, 3–4 mm, (median pair usually thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (sometimes with slight tinge of orange basally), lingulate, 4–6 mm.

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

(loosely to strongly sigmoid), 6–10 mm.

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.

ellipsoid, slightly inflated (somewhat latiseptate), 4–5 mm, (apex acute);

valves pubescent, trichomes erect, appearing slightly shaggy;

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

styles 2.5–3 mm, (shorter than mature fruits).

compressed.

± flattened, convex on outer side.

= 8.