Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, erect, (unbranched, slender), 0.1–0.6 dm.

several from base, erect to decumbent or prostrate, (unbranched or branched, sometimes densely leaved), 1–3.5(–4.5) dm.

blade rhombic to obovate, 2–4 cm, margins entire.

blade obovate to broadly oblong, 1.5–5(–8) cm, margins lyrate-pinnatifid, dentate, or entire.

blade linear-oblanceolate, similar to basal.

(proximal sometimes petiolate, distal sessile);

blade linear to oblanceolate, often falcate, 1–4(–7) cm, (proximal with base sometimes cuneate), margins entire, repand, or shallowly dentate.

dense (distally, subumbellate).

dense.

sepals (yellowish), oblong to elliptic, 3.5–7 mm, (median pair usually thickened apically, cucullate);

petals lingulate to spatulate, 4–7 mm.

sepals elliptic or oblong, 3–6.5 mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (widely spreading at anthesis, yellow to orange, claw sometimes whitish), cuneate, obdeltate, or obovate, (tapering to claw), 5–8(–10) mm, (claw often widened at base).

(divaricate-ascending), 3–5 mm, (densely pubescent).

(divaricate-ascending, sigmoid or, sometimes, nearly straight), 5–15(–25) mm.

(erect), ovate to suborbicular, compressed apically (latiseptate), 3–4 mm;

valves pubescent;

replum ovate to obovate;

ovules 4–6 per ovary;

style 2–3 mm.

(shortly stipitate), subglobose, not or slightly compressed, (3–)4–8 mm;

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

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules (8–)12–20(–26) per ovary;

style (1.5–)2–4(–5) mm.

plump.

flattened.

= 10.

= 12, 32.