Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, decumbent to erect, (several-branched, frequently stout), 1.5–6 dm.

several from base, erect or outer usually decumbent toward base, (from below a terminal tuft of mostly erect leaves, unbranched), 1–2 dm.

blade elliptic, (1.5–)3–6.5 cm, margins entire, repand, or shallowly dentate.

blade ovate to elliptic, 2–4 cm, (base gradually narrowed to petiole), margins entire, (surfaces densely pubescent with trichome layers).

(proximal shortly petiolate, distal sessile);

blade linear to elliptic or obovate, (0.5–)1–3.5(–4.5) cm, margins entire or repand.

(remote, proximal shortly petiolate);

blade spatulate to oblanceolate, similar to basal, (base often cuneate), margins entire.

loose.

elongated.

sepals oblong, lanceolate, or elliptic, (3–)3.5–6(–7.5) mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (yellow to orange), suborbicular or obovate, (5–)6.5–8(–11) mm, (narrowing gradually to broad claw, usually widened at base).

sepals linear-oblong, 5–7 mm, (lateral pair subsaccate);

petals (erect), lingulate, 8–10 mm, (claw barely differentiated from blade).

(recurved, sigmoid), 5–15 mm.

(recurved), 7–10 mm.

(sessile or shortly stipitate), orbicular or obovoid, often slightly compressed, (3.5–)4–6 mm;

valves sparsely pubescent, trichomes sessile and stellate, densely pubescent inside, trichomes simple or branched;

ovules 4–12 per ovary;

style 2–4.5 mm.

(usually pendent, sessile), subglobose, slightly flattened (angustiseptate), 4–5 mm;

valves densely pubescent, trichomes somewhat spreading;

ovules 8–12 per ovary;

style 4–5 mm.

flattened.

plump, (mucilaginous when wetted).

= 10, 20.