Flora of North America species comparison

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

several from base, erect or outer decumbent, (unbranched), to 2 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 elliptic to lanceolate or obovate, 3–8 cm, margins entire.

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

(proximal shortly petiolate or sessile, distal sessile);

blade elliptic or obovate, to 2 cm, margins entire.

congested, (elongated moderately in fruit).

dense.

sepals linear, 5–7 mm;

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

sepals narrowly elliptic or oblong, 4.5–5.3 mm, (tapering to the somewhat thickened, cucullate apex, lateral pair subsaccate);

petals (bright yellow), lingulate or broadly obovate, 7.5–8.5 mm, (narrowing to broad claw, joining in an arch, margins lacerate).

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

(divaricate-ascending to horizontal, straight to loosely curved), to 15 mm.

(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), suborbicular to broadly ovate or ellipsoid, slightly compressed, 6–8 mm;

valves pubescent;

ovules 12–22 per ovary;

style 2–3 mm.

slightly flattened.

flattened.

= 8.

= 10.