Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, erect to decumbent or prostrate, (unbranched or branched, sometimes densely leaved), 1–3.5(–4.5) dm.

few to several from base, erect, (usually unbranched), (1.5–)2.5–4(–6) dm.

blade obovate to broadly oblong, 1.5–5(–8) cm, margins lyrate-pinnatifid, dentate, or entire.

blade elliptic to obovate, 2–6.5 cm, margins entire, sinuate, or remotely toothed, (surfaces occasionally sparsely pubescent).

(proximal sometimes petiolate, distal sessile);

blade linear to oblanceolate, often falcate, 1–4(–7) cm, (proximal with base sometimes cuneate), margins entire, repand, or shallowly dentate.

(proximal often petiolate, distal sessile or subsessile);

blade oblanceolate to linear, 1–4 cm, margins entire.

dense.

dense, (subumbellate).

sepals elliptic or oblong, 3–6.5 mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (widely spreading at anthesis, yellow to orange, claw sometimes whitish), cuneate, obdeltate, or obovate, (tapering to claw), 5–8(–10) mm, (claw often widened at base).

sepals ovate or elliptic, 5.5–10 mm, (median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (bright yellow), obovate to elliptic, 8–14 mm, (sometimes with distinct claw, often retuse).

(divaricate-ascending, sigmoid or, sometimes, nearly straight), 5–15(–25) mm.

(ascending), relatively short.

(shortly stipitate), subglobose, not or slightly compressed, (3–)4–8 mm;

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

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules (8–)12–20(–26) per ovary;

style (1.5–)2–4(–5) mm.

(shortly stipitate), ± globose or ellipsoid, not or slightly inflated, 5–8 mm;

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

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules (8–)12–20 per ovary;

style 3.5–5 mm.

flattened.

flattened.

= 12, 32.

= 12, 24, 36.