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 from base, prostrate or straggling to erect, (sometimes purplish, usually unbranched), (0.5–)1–2(–3) dm.

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

blade oblanceolate, 1.5–5(–7) cm, margins entire or shallowly dentate, (flat).

(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.

blade elliptic to linear, (0.5–)1–2.5(–3) cm, margins usually entire.

dense.

(secund), dense, (elongated in fruit).

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 elliptic or oblong, 4–6(–7) mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (often red or lavender when dried), obovate, 6–8.5(–9.5) mm, (narrowing to broad claw).

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

(usually sharply recurved, sometimes divaricate-spreading or nearly horizontal), 5–15(–20) 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, obovoid, or broadly ellipsoid, slightly inflated, (3.5–)4–5.5(–6.5) mm;

valves densely pubescent outside, trichomes spreading or closely appressed, rarely sparsely pubescent inside;

ovules (4–)8(–10) per ovary;

style (slender), 3–5.5(–6.5) mm.

flattened.

slightly flattened.

= 12, 32.