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, usually prostrate, rarely decumbent, (unbranched, often purplish, sparsely pubescent), to 1.5 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 deltate, hastate, or, less often, rhombic to elliptic, 1–5 cm, margins entire (often partially involute).

(proximal petiolate, distal sessile);

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

(proximal shortly petiolate);

blade linear to oblanceolate, 0.5–1.5 cm, margins entire.

loose, (elongated).

loose, elongated.

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 (often purplish), oblong, lanceolate, or ovate, 4–6 mm, (median pair thickened apically);

petals spatulate or cuneate, 5–8(–9) mm, (margins undulate).

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

(ascending, slightly sigmoid to straight), 5–10 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.

ovoid or ellipsoid, slightly compressed, 3–5(–6) mm, (base often gibbous);

valves pubescent, trichomes loose, furcate near their bases and spreading, sometimes sparsely pubescent inside;

ovules 4(–8) per ovary;

style 1.5–4 mm.

slightly flattened.

flattened.