Flora of North America species comparison

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

several from base, erect, (unbranched, slender), 0.1–0.6 dm.

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

blade obovate, 4–6 cm, margins entire.

blade rhombic to obovate, 2–4 cm, margins entire.

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

blade linear-oblanceolate, similar to basal.

somewhat loose, (5–15 cm).

dense (distally, subumbellate).

sepals oblong, 5–7 mm;

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

sepals (yellowish), oblong to elliptic, 3.5–7 mm, (median pair usually thickened apically, cucullate);

petals lingulate to spatulate, 4–7 mm.

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

(divaricate-ascending), 3–5 mm, (densely pubescent).

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.

(erect), ovate to suborbicular, compressed apically (latiseptate), 3–4 mm;

valves pubescent;

replum ovate to obovate;

ovules 4–6 per ovary;

style 2–3 mm.

flattened.

plump.

= 8.

= 10.