Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, erect or laterally decumbent, (usually unbranched), (0.3–)0.5–2.5(–4) dm.

simple or few from base, prostrate to decumbent (arising laterally from a tuft of leaves, unbranched), 0.5–1.5 dm.

blade linear to somewhat elliptic, 1–4(–8) cm, margins entire or coarsely dentate.

blade suborbicular, deltate to rhombic, or elliptic, margins entire or sparsely dentate, 2–4(–6) cm.

(shortly petiolate);

blade usually linear to narrowly oblanceolate, rarely elliptic to rhombic, 0.5–2.5 cm, (base narrowing to petiole), margins entire or remotely dentate (sometimes involute).

(shortly petiolate);

blade oblanceolate to linear, 1–2(–3) cm, margins entire.

loose to somewhat dense.

loose, (sometimes elongated).

sepals elliptic to oblong, 5–8 mm, (lateral pair not saccate, median pair often thickened apically, ± cucullate);

petals (usually orange or orange-yellow at junction of blade and claw, sometimes also with orange guidelines), obdeltate to obovate, 8–12 mm, (claw relatively short).

sepals lanceolate, 3.5–6(–8) mm;

petals obovate to oblanceolate, (5–)7–8.5(–10) mm.

(divaricate-spreading to erect, usually straight or slightly curved, occasionally sigmoid), 8–20(–40) mm.

(sigmoid), 5–10 mm.

globose, broadly ellipsoid, or ovoid, not or slightly inflated, 5–8 mm, (firm, apex usually acute);

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence, often reddish in age), glabrous throughout;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules (12–)20–32(–40) per ovary;

style (2–)3–6 mm.

obcordate to truncate or obcompressed, slightly compressed (angustiseptate, inflated at lobe tips), 3–6mm (wider than long);

valves densely pubescent, trichomes appressed or slightly spreading; (septum usually fenestrate);

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style (slender), 3–6.5 mm, (often pubescent).

flattened.

flattened.

= 12, 14, 24.

= 10.