Flora of North America species comparison

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

several from base, erect, (unbranched, slender), 0.1–0.6 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 rhombic to obovate, 2–4 cm, margins entire.

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

blade linear-oblanceolate, similar to basal.

dense.

dense (distally, subumbellate).

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 (yellowish), oblong to elliptic, 3.5–7 mm, (median pair usually thickened apically, cucullate);

petals lingulate to spatulate, 4–7 mm.

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

(divaricate-ascending), 3–5 mm, (densely pubescent).

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.

(erect), ovate to suborbicular, compressed apically (latiseptate), 3–4 mm;

valves pubescent;

replum ovate to obovate;

ovules 4–6 per ovary;

style 2–3 mm.

compressed.

plump.

= 8.

= 10.