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.

simple or few to several from base, erect to spreading or prostrate, 0.5–2(–3) dm.

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

(usually ± rosulate);

blade obovate to oblanceolate, (1–)2–6(–15) cm, margins entire.

(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.

(sessile or shortly petiolate);

blade oblanceolate or lingulate, 0.5–1.5(–3) cm, margins entire.

dense.

loose.

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 to elliptic, (3–)4–5(–6) mm, (median pair often thickened apically, cucullate);

petals spatulate, 5–6(–7) mm, (blade gradually narrowed to claw).

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

(erect to divaricate or ascending), (5–)10–20(–40) mm, (stout).

(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.

subglobose to ellipsoid, uncompressed, 4–6(–9) mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous or sparsely pubescent outside, trichomes sessile;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules (8–)10–14(–16) per ovary;

style 1–2.5(–4) mm.

flattened.

plump.

= 12, 32.

= 60.