Flora of North America species comparison

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

several from base, erect to decumbent or prostrate, (unbranched or branched, sometimes densely leaved), 1–3.5(–4.5) dm.

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

blade obovate, 4–6 cm, margins entire.

blade obovate to broadly oblong, 1.5–5(–8) cm, margins lyrate-pinnatifid, dentate, or entire.

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

(proximal sometimes petiolate, distal sessile);

blade linear to oblanceolate, often falcate, 1–4(–7) cm, (proximal with base sometimes cuneate), margins entire, repand, or shallowly dentate.

somewhat loose, (5–15 cm).

dense.

sepals oblong, 5–7 mm;

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

sepals elliptic or oblong, 3–6.5 mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (widely spreading at anthesis, yellow to orange, claw sometimes whitish), cuneate, obdeltate, or obovate, (tapering to claw), 5–8(–10) mm, (claw often widened at base).

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

(divaricate-ascending, sigmoid or, sometimes, nearly straight), 5–15(–25) mm.

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.

(shortly stipitate), subglobose, not or slightly compressed, (3–)4–8 mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous throughout;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules (8–)12–20(–26) per ovary;

style (1.5–)2–4(–5) mm.

flattened.

flattened.

= 8.

= 12, 32.