Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, decumbent, (arising laterally, unbranched), 1–3 dm.

several from base, erect (and stout) or outer ones decumbent, (unbranched or branched, stiff and densely foliate, sterile leaf-bearing branches sometimes present), to 4 dm.

(numerous); (petiole slender, rarely with a few broad teeth);

blade obovate, 3–7 cm, margins entire.

blade obovate or elliptic, to ca. 3 cm, margins sinuate or shallowly dentate.

blade oblanceolate, 1.5–3 cm, margins entire.

(proximal usually shortly petiolate, distal sessile);

blade obovate to broadly elliptic, 1–3 cm, margins sinuate or shallowly toothed.

loose.

dense, compact, (elongated in fruit).

sepals oblong, 5–7 mm;

petals (yellow to purplish), spatulate, 8–12 mm.

sepals elliptic or narrowly elliptic or oblong, (3.8–)4.5–5.5 mm, (lateral pair cucullate, very convex, median pair tapering to base, thickened apically, cucullate, often slightly keeled);

petals cuneate, 6.5–8 mm, (slightly expanded at base, margins sinuate, apex retuse or entire).

(ascending or spreading, slightly curved or sigmoid), 1–2 cm.

(recurved, curved or sigmoid), somewhat expanded apically.

obcordate, angustiseptate, somewhat inflated, (not bladdery), 5–7 × 6–9 mm, (papery, basal sinus absent, apical sinus broad and open);

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

replum ovate, 5–7 mm, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex acute or obtuse;

ovules 4–6 per ovary;

style 5–7 mm.

(sessile or substipitate), oblong or broadly elliptic, compressed (latiseptate), 5–8 mm;

valves pubescent, trichomes spreading, sparsely pubescent inside;

ovules 4–6 per ovary;

style 3–5 mm.

flattened.