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, decumbent, 0.5–1(–2) dm, (rather stout, sparsely pubescent).

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

blade elliptic to suborbicular, 1.5–3.5(–5.5) cm, margins entire or shallowly dentate (at base, surfaces densely pubescent, silvery).

(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.

(petiolate or distal nearly sessile);

blade elliptic to obovate, 0.5–1.5 cm, margins entire.

dense.

dense, congested, (few-flowered).

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 lanceolate, oblanceolate, or narrowly elliptic, 3.8–5 mm, (median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals narrowly lanceolate to linear, 6–10(–13) mm.

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

(spreading or recurved, sometimes loosely sigmoid), 2–6.5 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.

(sessile or substipitate), broadly obcordate, obdeltate, or obcompressed, slightly compressed (angustiseptate), 3–5(–7) mm;

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

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 8–16 per ovary;

style (1.8–)3–6(–7) mm.

flattened.

slightly flattened, (ellipsoid to suborbicular).

= 12, 32.