Flora of North America species comparison

simple or few to several from base, erect or decumbent, (rarely branched, usually leafy), to 4 dm.

simple or few to several from base, erect, (sometimes branched), to 4 dm.

blade lyrate-pinnatifid, 1–7 cm, margins entire or shallowly dentate.

blade elliptic to rhombic, 3–8 cm, (base narrowing gradually to petiole), margins entire, repand, coarsely toothed, or pinnatifid.

(sessile or shortly petiolate);

blade narrowly obovate to elliptic, 0.5–6 cm, margins entire, repand, or shallowly dentate.

(proximal often shortly petiolate, distal sessile);

blade linear or narrowly obovate, 1.5–6(–10) cm, margins entire, repand, or shallowly toothed.

dense, (elongated in fruit, often subtended by distal cauline leaves).

usually loose.

sepals elliptic, 3.7–7.2 mm, (lateral pair somewhat cucullate, median pair thickened apically);

petals (yellow to orange-yellow), obovate to obdeltate, (4.5–)7–10(–11) mm, (tapering to short claw, apex often emarginate).

sepals elliptic or ovate, 4–6 mm, (lateral pair usually subsaccate);

petals obovate to obdeltate, 6–10 mm, (apex often emarginate).

(usually divaricate-spreading, straight or slightly curved, delicate, sometimes drooping, especially on herbarium specimens), 7–10 mm, (somewhat rigid).

(usually divaricate, sometimes horizontal, straight or slightly curved), 8–20 mm.

(sessile or substipitate), globose or broadly obovate, not inflated, 4–6 mm, (smooth);

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 8–16 per ovary;

style 2–5 mm.

not didymous, ± globose, slightly inflated, 4–6 mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous throughout;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 2–3.5 mm; (stigma expanded).

flattened.

flattened, (margined).

= 14.

= 10.