Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, decumbent, (unbranched, slender), 0.5–1 dm.

few from base, erect, (stout), to 1.5 dm (sometimes greatly reduced).

(strongly rosulate);

blade usually oblanceolate or broader, sometimes triangular, 2–3.5 cm (width 5–10 mm), margins entire or with 1 or 2 broad teeth, (apex acute).

blade suborbicular to rhombic or broadly elliptic, 1–4.5 cm, margins entire, (apex rounded to subacute).

blade oblanceolate, 1–1.5 cm (width 2–4 mm), margins entire, (apex acute).

(proximal petiolate, distal subsessile);

blade elliptic, 1–4 cm, (distal narrower), margins entire or remotely dentate.

congested, (elongated moderately in fruit).

condensed, (subcorymbose to subumbellate, few-flowered).

sepals linear, 5–7 mm;

petals spatulate, 8–10 mm, (apex often somewhat truncate).

sepals (persistent), broadly ovate or oblong to narrowly elliptic, 5.5–8(–9.5) mm, (lateral pair slightly cucullate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate, usually keeled);

petals (orange to yellow), oblong to obovate, 8–11.5(–14.5) mm, (slightly narrowed to broad claw, margins sinuate, often retuse).

(spreading, straight or somewhat sigmoid), 5–8 mm.

(horizontal or divaricate-ascending, straight or slightly curved), 5–15 mm, (stout and rigid).

(erect), didymous, suborbicular, inflated, 2–5(–8) × 4–8(–10)mm, (coriaceous, base slightly cordate or nearly obtuse, sinus obsolete or absent, apical sinus broad and deep);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), pubescent, trichomes appressed, (silvery on ovaries and immature fruit);

replum obovate to oblong, as wide as or wider than fruit, rarely somewhat constricted basally, apex obtuse;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 5–7 mm.

(sessile or substipitate), globose, ovoid, or suborbicular, compressed (with marginal and apical constriction), 4–7 mm;

valves pubescent, trichomes contiguous or overlapping, often spreading;

ovules 16–24 per ovary;

style 2–4 mm.

slightly flattened.

lenticular, ovate in outline.

= 8.

= 10.