Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple from base, erect to decumbent, (unbranched, mostly filiform, slender), 1–1.5 dm.

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

blade obovate, 4–6 cm, margins entire.

(erect, petiole slender);

blades broadly ovate to elliptic, 0.5–1 cm, (base abruptly narrowing to petiole), margins entire.

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

(remote, distally shortly petiolate);

blade ± spatulate, (base cuneate), margins entire.

somewhat loose, (5–15 cm).

lax, (elongated, few-flowered).

sepals oblong, 5–7 mm;

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

sepals (erect), oblong, 3.5–4 mm, (lateral pair not saccate);

petals (often fading to light purple apically), spatulate to nearly lingulate, 6–7 mm.

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

(recurved to widely spreading, filiform, slender), 5–10 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.

(pendent), globose or subglobose, compressed, 3–4 mm;

valves ± densely pubescent;

ovules 6–10 per ovary;

style ca. 1.5 mm.

flattened.

not seen.

= 8.