Flora of North America species comparison

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

several from base, erect or decumbent and straggling, (branched distally, branches usually filiform), to 5 dm.

(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 obovate or rhombic to broadly elliptic, 1–4.5(–6.5) cm, margins entire or lyrate-pinnatifid.

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

(proximal petiolate, distal sessile);

blade rhombic or obovate to elliptic, 0.5–2(–3) cm, margins entire or sinuate to remotely toothed.

congested, (elongated moderately in fruit).

loose.

sepals linear, 5–7 mm;

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

sepals elliptic or ovate, 2.5–5.5 mm, (median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (yellow to orange-yellow), obovate to cuneate, 4–7 mm, (apex sometimes retuse).

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

(recurved in age), 5–10(–15) mm, (slender).

(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.

globose or subglobose, not or slightly inflated, (2–)3–5(–7) mm;

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

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules (4–)8–16(–20) per ovary;

style (1–5–)2–4.5 mm.

slightly flattened.

flattened.

= 8.

= 10.