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 to several from base, erect, (often distal 1/2 branched), to 6 dm.

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

blade oblanceolate, to 9 cm, margins entire, dentate, or sinuate to lyrate-pinnatifid.

(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).

(proximal shortly petiolate, distal sessile);

blade narrowly elliptic to linear, 2–4(–6) cm, margins entire or repand to shallowly dentate.

loose to somewhat dense.

loose.

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 elliptic or elongate-ovate, 3.4–5.2(–6.5) mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals obovate or deltate, 5–10 mm, (sometimes with short claw, margins undulate).

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

(divaricate-ascending to widely spreading, straight), 8–20 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.

globose or subglobose, sometimes slightly compressed, 3–6 mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), densely papillose, densely pubescent inside, trichomes raised;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 8–18 per ovary;

style 1.5–3.5 mm.

flattened.

flattened.

= 12, 14, 24.

= 12.