Flora of North America species comparison

(simple or few to several from base), erect or ascending to subprostrate, branched distally, 1–5(–7) dm, glabrous.

(soon withered); initially rosulate;

petiole (1–)2–5(–6.5) cm;

blade oblanceolate to lanceolate (in outline), 2–7(–10) cm × 10–30(–45) mm, margins sinuate- or runcinate-pinnatifid to coarsely dentate;

lobes 3–6 on each side, often triangular, slightly smaller than terminal lobe, margins dentate or subentire.

(sometimes bracts, several), similar to basal, (shortly petiolate);

blade margins dentate or subentire, (surfaces glabrous or sparsely puberulent at and near margin). (Inflorescences 2–4(–6)-fasciculate, or flowers solitary and axillary, bracteate throughout.) Fruiting pedicels ascending to erect, stout, narrower than fruit base, 0.5–1(–2) mm.

sepals erect, oblong, 1–1.5 × 0.3–0.5 mm;

petals spatulate, 1.5–2 × 0.4–0.6 mm, claw 0.6–1 mm;

filaments (erect, yellowish), 1.2–1.7mm;

anthers ovate, 0.3–0.5 mm.

(erect to ascending), subulate-linear, recurved, straight, slightly torulose, stout (widest at base), 1–2(–2.3) cm × 0.9–1.7 mm;

valves usually glabrous, rarely puberulent;

ovules 20–44(–54) per ovary;

style 0.5–1 mm;

stigma slightly 2-lobed.

0.7–1 × 0.4–0.5 mm.

= 28.