Flora of North America species comparison

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

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

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

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

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

(proximal shortly petiolate, distal sessile);

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

congested, (elongated in fruit).

loose.

sepals oblong, 6–8 mm;

petals spatulate, to 10 mm.

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).

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

(recurved, sigmoid), 5–15 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.

(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.

flattened.

flattened.

= 8, 16.

= 10, 20.