Flora of North America species comparison

simple or several from base, prostrate to erect, 0.5–2(–3.5) dm.

few to several from base, ascending (in flower) to nearly prostrate (in fruit), (unbranched), 1–2.5 dm.

blade suborbicular or obovate to elliptic, (1–)2–5(–7) cm, margins entire, sinuate, or shallowly dentate.

(petiole 1–3.5 cm);

blade ovate to rhombic or rotund, 2–7 cm, (base narrowed abruptly to petiole), margins usually entire, occasionally shallowly repand, (flat).

(often secund, proximal shortly petiolate, distal sessile);

blade linear to obovate or rhombic, 1–2.5(–4) cm, margins entire or shallowly dentate.

blade elliptic or narrowly so, (0.7–)1–2.5 cm, (base narrowed gradually to petiole), margins entire.

dense, compact, (usually elongated in fruit).

dense, (elongated in fruit).

sepals elliptic, 5–8.5 mm, (lateral pair boat-shaped, saccate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (yellow to orange, sometimes fading purplish), narrowly spatulate or obovate, (6–)7.5–12 mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade, or gradually narrowed to claw, slightly expanded basally).

sepals (lavender under grayish trichomes), elliptic, 4–6 mm;

petals (white, pale yellow basally, often tinged lavender abaxially), narrowly spatulate, 6–10 mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade).

(usually sharply sigmoid, rarely nearly divaricate-spreading and straight), 5–15(–20) mm, (stout).

(ascending, curved to slightly sigmoid), (4–)6–12 mm, (stout).

(erect), ellipsoid or ovoid, not or slightly obcompressed, (apex not compressed), (6–)7–12 mm;

valves densely pubescent, sometimes sparsely pubescent inside;

ovules (8–)12–20(–24) per ovary;

style 3–7 mm, (sometimes pubescent).

subglobose to ovoid, slightly compressed, 5–7 mm;

valves densely pubescent, trichomes spreading;

ovules 8–12 per ovary;

style 4–6 mm.

flattened.

flattened, (faintly margined).

= 10.