Flora of North America species comparison

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

several from base (crowded), erect, not exceeding leaves.

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

usually absent.

blade linear-oblanceolate, similar to basal.

(petiole not differentiated from blade);

blade linear-oblanceolate, 3–8(–13) mm, margins entire.

dense (distally, subumbellate).

(secund), dense, corymbose, (few-flowered, not or barely exceeding leaves).

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

petals lingulate to spatulate, 4–7 mm.

sepals (yellow-green), linear to narrowly triangular, 3.7–4.8 mm, (lateral pair subsaccate);

petals (deep yellow, slightly orange in center), spatulate, 5.2–6.5 mm, (claw joined at right angle).

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

(ascending to divaricate-ascending, straight), 3.5–6 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.

(becoming reddish or copper-colored in age), ovate, often slightly compressed (at margins apically), 3–5 mm, (apex acute);

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous; (septum perforate or not);

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style 1.8–3 mm.

plump.

plump or slightly flattened, (strongly mucilaginous).

= 10.