Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, prostrate to decumbent, (usually unbranched, rarely branched distally), 1–3 dm.

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

(tufted);

blade broadly obovate, 1–2 cm, margins entire or with 1 or 2 broad teeth, (apex rounded to obtuse).

(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 to nearly oblong, similar to basal, (base cuneate), margins entire.

similar to basal, smaller.

(secund), loose, (elongated in fruit).

dense.

sepals (yellowish), elliptic to lanceolate, (2–)3–4 mm;

petals spatulate, (3.9–)5–7 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).

(recurved), 6–8(–12) mm.

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

(usually pendent), elliptic to subglobose, usually slightly compressed (latiseptate), 3–4 mm;

valves densely pubescent, sometimes with scattered trichomes inside;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style ca. 3 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.

somewhat flattened.

flattened.