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.

several from base, erect to decumbent, (unbranched, fertile stems from among basal leaves), 1.2–1.8 dm.

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

(erect, not rosulate);

blade broadly oblanceolate, 4–8 cm, margins entire or shallowly sinuate-dentate, (apex acute).

(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 petiolate);

blade narrowly lanceolate, similar to basal in size, (distal with cuneate base), margins entire.

dense.

loose, (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 (greenish yellow), elliptic, often broadly so, 4.8–7.1 mm;

petals oblanceolate, 6.8–9.8 mm.

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

(widely spreading to recurved), 1–1.5 cm.

(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.

(usually pendent), slightly didymous apically, obcordate, slightly inflated, 4–7 × 3–6 mm, (papery, basal sinus absent, apical sinus evident to nearly absent);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), pubescent;

replum broadly obovate to suborbicular, 4–5 mm, as wide as or wider than fruit, margins entire;

ovules usually 4 (rarely 6–8) per ovary;

style (2.5–)3–4(–5) mm.

flattened.

plump.

= 12, 32.