Flora of North America species comparison

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

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

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

blade obovate, 3–7 cm, margins entire.

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

blade oblanceolate, 1.5–3 cm, margins entire.

(proximal shortly petiolate, distal sessile);

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

loose.

loose.

sepals oblong, 5–7 mm;

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

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).

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

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

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.

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.

= 12.