Flora of North America species comparison

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

several from base, decumbent to erect, (several-branched, frequently stout), 1.5–6 dm.

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

blade obovate, 3–7 cm, margins entire.

blade elliptic, (1.5–)3–6.5 cm, margins entire, repand, or shallowly dentate.

blade oblanceolate, 1.5–3 cm, margins entire.

(proximal shortly petiolate, distal sessile);

blade linear to elliptic or obovate, (0.5–)1–3.5(–4.5) cm, margins entire or repand.

loose.

loose.

sepals oblong, 5–7 mm;

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

sepals oblong, lanceolate, or elliptic, (3–)3.5–6(–7.5) mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (yellow to orange), suborbicular or obovate, (5–)6.5–8(–11) mm, (narrowing gradually to broad claw, usually widened at base).

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

(recurved, sigmoid), 5–15 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.

(sessile or shortly stipitate), orbicular or obovoid, often slightly compressed, (3.5–)4–6 mm;

valves sparsely pubescent, trichomes sessile and stellate, densely pubescent inside, trichomes simple or branched;

ovules 4–12 per ovary;

style 2–4.5 mm.

flattened.

= 10, 20.