Flora of North America species comparison

simple to several from base, erect, often outer decumbent, (unbranched or branched distally), 1–7 dm.

simple from base, erect, (arising from a condensed rosette), to 1 dm.

blade oblanceolate to elliptic, 1.5–8(–11.5) cm, margins lyrate-pinnatifid to dentate or repand, (abaxial surface densely pubescent, adaxial sparsely pubescent).

(ascending or erect);

blade elliptic to oblanceolate to obovate, (usually curled from middle to apex), (1.5–)5–7 cm (width 12–20 mm), margins entire.

(proximal petiolate, distal sessile);

blade oblanceolate to oblong, 1–7 cm, margins dentate to repand.

(1–5);

blade oblanceolate, 1–2.5 cm, margins entire.

loose, (elongated).

compact (or elongated in fruit, to 1 dm, barely exceeding leaves).

sepals elliptic or broadly ovate, 3–6.5(–8) mm, (median pair slightly thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (yellow to orange), broadly obovate, 6–11 mm, (narrowing gradually to short claw).

sepals (erect), oblong to linear or spatulate, 5.5–7 mm;

petals spatulate, 10–14 mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade).

(usually divaricate-spreading, sometimes horizontal or shallowly recurved, straight or slightly curved), (7–)10–20(–25) mm, (slender or stout).

(divaricate-ascending, slightly curved), 7–18 mm.

(stipitate or subsessile, gynophore 1–2 mm), globose, subglobose, obpyriform, or obovoid, not or slightly inflated, 3–9 mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous throughout or sparsely pubescent inside;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 8–20(–28) per ovary;

style 2–4.5 mm.

didymous, irregular, highly inflated, 8–11(–18) × 10–15 mm, (papery, basal sinus shallower than the deep apical sinus; valves retaining seeds after dehiscence);

replum obovate, not constricted, 1–1.8 mm, apex obtuse, as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules (4–)8(–12) per ovary;

style 4–6 mm, (glabrous).

slightly flattened.

flattened, (oblong to elliptic, thin-margined or not).