Flora of North America species comparison

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

few or several from base, prostrate to decumbent, (unbranched or branched), 0.5–1.5 dm.

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

blade obovate, 4–6 cm, margins entire.

blades orbicular to broadly obovate, 1.5–3 cm, margins usually entire, rarely remotely dentate.

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

(sessile or shortly petiolate);

blade elliptic to oblanceolate, 1–1.5(–2.5) cm, margins entire, (apex obtuse).

somewhat loose, (5–15 cm).

dense, (elongated in fruit).

sepals oblong, 5–7 mm;

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

sepals ovate or oblong-elliptic, 5–5.5 mm, (lateral pair not saccate);

petals cuneate or broadly obovate, ca. 7 mm, (sometimes slightly narrowed to a broad claw, apex sometimes retuse).

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

(sharply recurved), 5–10 mm, (stout).

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.

subglobose to broadly obovoid, strongly inflated (often slightly angustiseptate), 5–7 mm, (papery);

valves sparsely pubescent; (septum fenestrate, perforate, or obsolete);

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style 2–3 mm.

flattened.

somewhat flattened.

= 8.