Flora of North America species comparison

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

several from base, prostrate, (slender, sparsely pubescent), 0.5–2 dm.

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

blade obovate to narrowly elliptic, 1.5–6 cm, margins usually entire, rarely shallowly dentate, (surfaces densely pubescent, often silvery).

(sessile or shortly petiolate);

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

blade oblanceolate to spatulate, 0.5–1 cm, margins entire, (surfaces often sparsely pubescent).

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

(narrow), loose, (elongated in fruit).

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 (greenish brown, sometimes magenta), linear or elliptic, 4.3–6(–7.5) mm, (median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (frequently pink or magenta in distal 1/3–1/2), spatulate to oblanceolate, 6–10(–12) mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade).

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

(ascending to somewhat spreading, straight to slightly curved), 4–8(–12) 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.

broadly ovoid to suborbicular, inflated, (terete or, often, slightly angustiseptate), 3–6mm;

valves sparsely pubescent;

ovules usually 4, rarely 6–8 per ovary;

style 3–6.5 mm.

flattened.

plump.

= 14.