Flora of North America species comparison

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

several from base, erect or outer decumbent, (unbranched), to 2 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 elliptic to lanceolate or obovate, 3–8 cm, margins entire.

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

(proximal shortly petiolate or sessile, distal sessile);

blade elliptic or obovate, to 2 cm, margins entire.

dense.

dense.

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 narrowly elliptic or oblong, 4.5–5.3 mm, (tapering to the somewhat thickened, cucullate apex, lateral pair subsaccate);

petals (bright yellow), lingulate or broadly obovate, 7.5–8.5 mm, (narrowing to broad claw, joining in an arch, margins lacerate).

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

(divaricate-ascending to horizontal, straight to loosely curved), to 15 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.

(sessile or substipitate), suborbicular to broadly ovate or ellipsoid, slightly compressed, 6–8 mm;

valves pubescent;

ovules 12–22 per ovary;

style 2–3 mm.

compressed.

flattened.

= 8.

= 10.