Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, decumbent, (unbranched, leafy for the genus), ca. 1 dm.

several from base, erect, (arising among leaves of an elongated main axis), to 5 dm (± equal).

(forming a strong rosette; long-petiolate);

blade obovate, 1.5–4(–8) cm, (base ± abruptly narrowing to petiole), margins usually repand or dentate, rarely entire, (apex usually angular, surfaces silvery).

(shortly petiolate);

blade obovate to oblanceolate, (1.5–)2.5–5(–6) cm, margins entire, sinuate to shallowly toothed, or pinnatifid.

blade oblanceolate, 1–2 cm (width 4–8 mm), margins entire or with occasional tooth, (apex acute).

(sessile or shortly petiolate);

blade oblanceolate to oblong, 1.3–3(–4) cm, (base cuneate), margins entire or repand to dentate.

congested, (elongated in fruit, greatly exceeding leaves).

dense.

sepals lanceolate to oblong, 6–8 mm, (often keeled);

petals spatulate, 10–12 mm.

sepals elliptic or obovate, 2.6–4.1 mm, (median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (bright yellow), obovate, 3.5–6.5(–7.5) mm, (margins sinuate).

(spreading, straight or slightly curved), 8–12 mm.

(usually spreading horizontally, straight), 7–14(–21) mm.

(erect), didymous, inflated, 10–20 × 10–20 mm, (papery or firm, basal sinus shallow to deep, sometimes barely notched, apical sinus deep, narrow, usually closed);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), loosely pubescent, trichomes spreading (appearing fuzzy);

replum obovate to broadly oblong, not constricted, 3–4 mm, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex obtuse;

ovules (4–)8 per ovary;

style 7–9 mm.

(sessile or substipitate);

globose, often slightly compressed apically, (1–)2–3 mm;

valves sparsely pubescent, sometimes pubescent inside, trichomes spreading, 3–5-rayed;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 2–3.5(–4) mm.

flattened.

flattened or plump, (often outer surface hemispherical, inner surface flattened, or both surfaces rounded).

= 14.