Flora of North America species comparison

few to several from base, erect, (usually exceeding basal leaves), 0.3–0.7 dm.

simple or few to several from base, erect, (sometimes branched), to 4 dm.

blade linear-spatulate, 1.5–4 cm, (base narrowed gradually to petiole), margins entire.

blade elliptic to rhombic, 3–8 cm, (base narrowing gradually to petiole), margins entire, repand, coarsely toothed, or pinnatifid.

blade spatulate, similar to basal.

(proximal often shortly petiolate, distal sessile);

blade linear or narrowly obovate, 1.5–6(–10) cm, margins entire, repand, or shallowly toothed.

crowded in distal 1/3, (4–10-flowered).

usually loose.

sepals (pale yellow), oblong to elliptic, 3–4 mm, (median pair usually thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (sometimes with slight tinge of orange basally), lingulate, 4–6 mm.

sepals elliptic or ovate, 4–6 mm, (lateral pair usually subsaccate);

petals obovate to obdeltate, 6–10 mm, (apex often emarginate).

(loosely to strongly sigmoid), 6–10 mm.

(usually divaricate, sometimes horizontal, straight or slightly curved), 8–20 mm.

ellipsoid, slightly inflated (somewhat latiseptate), 4–5 mm, (apex acute);

valves pubescent, trichomes erect, appearing slightly shaggy;

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

styles 2.5–3 mm, (shorter than mature fruits).

not didymous, ± globose, slightly inflated, 4–6 mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous throughout;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 2–3.5 mm; (stigma expanded).

± flattened, convex on outer side.

flattened, (margined).

= 10.