Flora of North America species comparison

few to several from base, erect or outer decumbent, 0.5–2.5 dm.

several from base (crowded), erect, not exceeding leaves.

blade suborbicular to elliptic or ovate or deltate, 0.5–2(–6.5) cm, margins entire or shallowly dentate.

usually absent.

(proximal shortly petiolate, distal usually sessile);

blade narrowly elliptic or obovate, (0.5–)1–2.5(–4) cm, margins entire.

(petiole not differentiated from blade);

blade linear-oblanceolate, 3–8(–13) mm, margins entire.

compact, (± subumbellate to densely corymbiform, elongated or not).

(secund), dense, corymbose, (few-flowered, not or barely exceeding leaves).

sepals ± elliptic, 4.5–7(–8.5) mm, (median pair thickened apically);

petals (sometimes white), suborbicular to obovate or obdeltate, 6.5–15 mm, (base narrowing to broad claw, apex sometimes emarginated).

sepals (yellow-green), linear to narrowly triangular, 3.7–4.8 mm, (lateral pair subsaccate);

petals (deep yellow, slightly orange in center), spatulate, 5.2–6.5 mm, (claw joined at right angle).

(usually spreading at right angles, sometimes nearly erect, ± straight), 5–15(–20) mm, (stout).

(ascending to divaricate-ascending, straight), 3.5–6 mm.

(sessile or shortly stipitate, less than 1 mm), subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, inflated or slightly compressed (terete or subterete), (4–)5–8(–9) mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 8–16 per ovary;

style 4–8(–9) mm.

(becoming reddish or copper-colored in age), ovate, often slightly compressed (at margins apically), 3–5 mm, (apex acute);

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous; (septum perforate or not);

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style 1.8–3 mm.

flattened.

plump or slightly flattened, (strongly mucilaginous).