Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple or few from base, decumbent, (straggling and flexuous, usually branched distally), 4–8 dm.

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

blade narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 4–12 cm, margins entire, sinuate, or shallowly dentate, (apex acute).

blade spatulate, similar to basal.

(sessile or proximal shortly petiolate);

blade linear to narrowly elliptic, 3–4 cm, margins entire, sinuate, or remotely dentate, (apex acute).

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

loose, (sometimes greatly elongated).

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, 3.5–4 mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals broadly obovate, 4–5 mm, (sometimes with short, broad claw).

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

(recurved), 15–20(–25) 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), subglobose or broadly ovoid, slightly compressed, 5–7 mm;

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

ovules per ovary unknown;

style 1.5–2 mm.

± flattened, convex on outer side.

flattened.

= 16.