Flora of North America species comparison

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

few to several from base, prostrate to erect or spreading, 0.05–0.5(–1.2) dm.

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

(petiole and blade differentiated or not);

blade spatulate to elliptic or linear or narrowly oblanceolate, 0.5–1.5(–2.5) cm, margins entire.

(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).

similar to basal, smaller.

loose to somewhat dense.

dense.

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 narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, 2.8–6 mm;

petals (pale to deep yellow), narrowly lanceolate to oblanceolate, 5–9 mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade).

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

(ascending, straight or slightly curved), 2–6 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.

(sessile or substipitate), globose or subglobose to obovoid, not or slightly inflated, 3–6 mm, (firm, apex acute);

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

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style 1.7–6 mm.

flattened.

flattened.

= 12, 14, 24.