Flora of North America species comparison

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

few to several from base, erect, (from basal leaf cluster, branched distally, flowering branches slender, subtended by bracts), 3–6 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).

blade oblanceolate or broadly obovate, to 10 cm, margins usually sinuate-dentate or entire, sometimes lobed.

(proximal petiolate, distal sessile);

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

(proximal shortly petiolate, distal sessile);

blade oblanceolate to narrowly oblong, similar to basal, (distal with base slightly cuneate).

loose, (elongated).

paniculate, (rachises and pedicels more densely pubescent than proximal 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 elliptic, 3–7 mm, (median pair slightly thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (white), broadly ovate, to 12 mm, (narrowing gradually to short claw).

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

(widely divaricate-ascending and straight, or slightly recurved), 10–15 mm, (slender, pubescent).

(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.

(widely spreading to nearly pendent in age, shortly stipitate), globose or subglobose, not or slightly inflated, 3–10 mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 8–12 per ovary;

style ca. 2 mm, (slender, fragile).

slightly flattened.

flattened.

= 12.