Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, erect or somewhat decumbent, (unbranched), 1–3.5 dm.

several from base, erect (and stout) or outer ones decumbent, (unbranched or branched, stiff and densely foliate, sterile leaf-bearing branches sometimes present), to 4 dm.

(petiole slender, usually incised or with broad teeth along petiole);

blade obovate, 4–6 cm, margins entire.

blade obovate or elliptic, to ca. 3 cm, margins sinuate or shallowly dentate.

blade oblanceolate or broader, 1.5–2.5 cm, margins entire or sparsely dentate, (apex acute).

(proximal usually shortly petiolate, distal sessile);

blade obovate to broadly elliptic, 1–3 cm, margins sinuate or shallowly toothed.

somewhat loose, (5–15 cm).

dense, compact, (elongated in fruit).

sepals oblong, 5–7 mm;

petals (lemon yellow), spatulate, 9–12 mm.

sepals elliptic or narrowly elliptic or oblong, (3.8–)4.5–5.5 mm, (lateral pair cucullate, very convex, median pair tapering to base, thickened apically, cucullate, often slightly keeled);

petals cuneate, 6.5–8 mm, (slightly expanded at base, margins sinuate, apex retuse or entire).

(spreading or ascending, curved, fruits not pendent), 10–20 mm.

(recurved, curved or sigmoid), somewhat expanded apically.

didymous, obreniform, moderately inflated, angustispetate, (8–)10–12(–15) × 10–14(–16) mm, (papery, not keeled, basal sinus absent, apical sinus broad and open);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence, rounded or irregular), loosely pubescent, trichomes spreading;

replum broadly lanceolate, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex acute;

ovules 8 per ovary;

style 1–2 mm.

(sessile or substipitate), oblong or broadly elliptic, compressed (latiseptate), 5–8 mm;

valves pubescent, trichomes spreading, sparsely pubescent inside;

ovules 4–6 per ovary;

style 3–5 mm.

flattened.

flattened.

= 8.