Flora of North America species comparison

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

several from base, erect, (arising among leaves of an elongated main axis), to 5 dm (± equal).

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

(shortly petiolate);

blade obovate to oblanceolate, (1.5–)2.5–5(–6) cm, margins entire, sinuate to shallowly toothed, or pinnatifid.

(proximal petiolate, distal sessile);

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

(sessile or shortly petiolate);

blade oblanceolate to oblong, 1.3–3(–4) cm, (base cuneate), margins entire or repand to dentate.

loose, (elongated).

dense.

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 elliptic or obovate, 2.6–4.1 mm, (median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (bright yellow), obovate, 3.5–6.5(–7.5) mm, (margins sinuate).

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

(usually spreading horizontally, straight), 7–14(–21) 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.

(sessile or substipitate);

globose, often slightly compressed apically, (1–)2–3 mm;

valves sparsely pubescent, sometimes pubescent inside, trichomes spreading, 3–5-rayed;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 2–3.5(–4) mm.

slightly flattened.

flattened or plump, (often outer surface hemispherical, inner surface flattened, or both surfaces rounded).

= 14.