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, ascending or prostrate, (arising laterally, also from within basal leaves, usually unbranched, rarely branched), 0.5–3(–6) dm.

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

blade narrowly oblanceolate or broadly elliptic, 1–7(–12) cm, margins entire or shallowly toothed, sometimes repand, (inner blades usually flattened in age, surfaces often gray-green, scabrous).

(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.

(usually secund);

blade spatulate or obovate, 1–2.5(–4.5) cm, margins entire or shallowly toothed, (flat or involute).

dense.

somewhat crowded (to moderately elongated in fruit, exceeding basal leaves).

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 broadly elliptic or oblong, 4–7.5(–9) mm, (median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals cuneate or obovate, 7–10(–16) mm, (tapering gradually to broad claw).

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

(often divaricate-spreading and straight, or horizontal and loosely sigmoid, sometimes slightly recurved), 5–15 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.

subglobose to ovoid or ellipsoid, sometimes compressed, (4–)5–7(–9) mm;

valves sparsely pubescent, trichomes appressed or erect, sometimes sparsely pubescent inside;

ovules (8–)12–16(–20) per ovary;

style 2–7 mm.

flattened.

somewhat flattened.

= 12, 32.

= 10 + 2, 18, 20, ± 40.