Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple or few to several from base, erect, (often distal 1/2 branched), to 6 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 oblanceolate, to 9 cm, margins entire, dentate, or sinuate to lyrate-pinnatifid.

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

(proximal shortly petiolate, distal sessile);

blade narrowly elliptic to linear, 2–4(–6) cm, margins entire or repand to shallowly dentate.

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 elliptic or elongate-ovate, 3.4–5.2(–6.5) mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals obovate or deltate, 5–10 mm, (sometimes with short claw, margins undulate).

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

(divaricate-ascending to widely spreading, straight), 8–20 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.

globose or subglobose, sometimes slightly compressed, 3–6 mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), densely papillose, densely pubescent inside, trichomes raised;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 8–18 per ovary;

style 1.5–3.5 mm.

compressed.

flattened.

= 8.

= 12.