Flora of North America species comparison

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

few to several from base, prostrate to erect or spreading, 0.05–0.5(–1.2) dm.

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

blade obovate, 4–6 cm, margins entire.

(petiole and blade differentiated or not);

blade spatulate to elliptic or linear or narrowly oblanceolate, 0.5–1.5(–2.5) cm, margins entire.

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

similar to basal, smaller.

somewhat loose, (5–15 cm).

dense.

sepals oblong, 5–7 mm;

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

sepals narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, 2.8–6 mm;

petals (pale to deep yellow), narrowly lanceolate to oblanceolate, 5–9 mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade).

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

(ascending, straight or slightly curved), 2–6 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.

(sessile or substipitate), globose or subglobose to obovoid, not or slightly inflated, 3–6 mm, (firm, apex acute);

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

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style 1.7–6 mm.

flattened.

flattened.

= 8.