Flora of North America species comparison

few to several from base, ± erect, (arising laterally, also from within basal leaves), 0.2–0.4 dm.

simple or few to several from base, erect or decumbent, (rarely branched, usually leafy), to 4 dm.

(erect);

blade linear-oblanceolate, 1.2–2.8 cm, (base gradually narrowed to petiole), margins entire.

blade lyrate-pinnatifid, 1–7 cm, margins entire or shallowly dentate.

blade linear, similar to basal.

(sessile or shortly petiolate);

blade narrowly obovate to elliptic, 0.5–6 cm, margins entire, repand, or shallowly dentate.

dense, (often subumbellate, not or barely exceeding basal leaves).

dense, (elongated in fruit, often subtended by distal cauline leaves).

sepals (pale green-yellow), oblong to elliptic, 4–5 mm, (median pair usually thickened apically, cucullate);

petals lingulate, 6–9 mm.

sepals elliptic, 3.7–7.2 mm, (lateral pair somewhat cucullate, median pair thickened apically);

petals (yellow to orange-yellow), obovate to obdeltate, (4.5–)7–10(–11) mm, (tapering to short claw, apex often emarginate).

(ascending, curved), 3–5.5 mm.

(usually divaricate-spreading, straight or slightly curved, delicate, sometimes drooping, especially on herbarium specimens), 7–10 mm, (somewhat rigid).

lanceolate in outline, compressed (latiseptate) on margins and at apex, 4–5 mm;

valves pubescent, trichomes closely appressed;

ovules 8–12 per ovary;

style 3.5–4.5 mm (equaling or exceeding length of fruit, curved proximal to stigma).

(sessile or substipitate), globose or broadly obovate, not inflated, 4–6 mm, (smooth);

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 8–16 per ovary;

style 2–5 mm.

plump, (oblong).

flattened.

= 14.