Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, usually decumbent to ascending, (arising laterally, unbranched, coarse), 1–2 dm.

several from base, erect or laterally decumbent, (usually unbranched), (0.3–)0.5–2.5(–4) dm.

blade pandurate or obovate, 3–6 cm, margins usually deeply and broadly incised, rarely subentire, (apex obtuse).

blade linear to somewhat elliptic, 1–4(–8) cm, margins entire or coarsely dentate.

blade oblanceolate to spatulate, similar to basal, (3–6 mm wide), margins entire, (apex often somewhat acute).

(shortly petiolate);

blade usually linear to narrowly oblanceolate, rarely elliptic to rhombic, 0.5–2.5 cm, (base narrowing to petiole), margins entire or remotely dentate (sometimes involute).

congested, (elongated in fruit).

loose to somewhat dense.

sepals oblong, 6–8 mm;

petals spatulate, to 10 mm.

sepals elliptic to oblong, 5–8 mm, (lateral pair not saccate, median pair often thickened apically, ± cucullate);

petals (usually orange or orange-yellow at junction of blade and claw, sometimes also with orange guidelines), obdeltate to obovate, 8–12 mm, (claw relatively short).

(usually curving upward, sigmoid), 6–10 mm.

(divaricate-spreading to erect, usually straight or slightly curved, occasionally sigmoid), 8–20(–40) mm.

didymous, irregular in shape, somewhat angular, inflated, 5–7 × 6–8 mm, (papery, often rigid, base obtuse or truncate, apical sinus broad, open and deep);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), pubescent, trichomes spreading, loose;

replum oblong, often constricted, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex obtuse;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 5–7 mm.

globose, broadly ellipsoid, or ovoid, not or slightly inflated, 5–8 mm, (firm, apex usually acute);

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence, often reddish in age), glabrous throughout;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules (12–)20–32(–40) per ovary;

style (2–)3–6 mm.

flattened.

flattened.

= 8, 16.

= 12, 14, 24.