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, prostrate, (arising proximal to a terminal cluster of erect leaves, usually unbranched, slender), 0.5–1(–1.5) dm.

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

(petiole slender);

blade elliptic to rhombic, 1.5–4(–5) cm, (base gradually tapering to petiole), margins usually entire, rarely dentate.

(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 narrowly obovate to oblanceolate, 5–15 mm, margins entire.

dense.

(relatively short), rather 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 ± elliptic, 4–6 mm;

petals ovate, 6–8 mm, (claw slightly expanded at base).

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

(usually secund, recurved), 5–8 mm.

(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.

(pendent), globose, subglobose, or slightly obcompressed, slightly or not inflated, 3–6 mm, (rigid, apex usually beaked);

valves pubescent throughout;

ovules 8–12 per ovary;

style 1–2 mm, (pubescent).

flattened.

slightly flattened, (suborbicular).

= 12, 32.