Flora of North America species comparison

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

several from base, erect or outer ones decumbent or procumbent, (sometimes much-branched distally), to 6 dm.

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

blade obovate or rhombic, to ca. 2.5 cm, margins usually shallowly dentate, sometimes lyrate-pinnatifid.

blade spatulate, similar to basal.

(proximal shortly petiolate, distal sessile);

blade obovate to rhombic or oblanceolate, 2–4(–6) cm, margins entire or shallowly and remotely dentate.

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

usually dense, (several-flowered).

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 ovate or oblong (tapering at base), 3.6–4.8(–5.3) mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals obovate to spatulate, 4.5–7.5 mm, (blade narrowed to broad claw, margins sinuate).

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

(strongly recurved), to 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).

(± pendent), ovoid, obcompressed, or globose, compressed, 4–6(–8) mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), sparsely pubescent or glabrous, sparsely pubescent inside;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules usually 4, rarely 6, per ovary;

style 2.5–3.6 mm.

± flattened, convex on outer side.

flattened.

= 14.