Flora of North America species comparison

simple or few from base, decumbent to ascending, (arising laterally from a tight hemispherical tuft of leaves), to 0.15 dm.

several from base, erect to decumbent or prostrate, (unbranched or branched, sometimes densely leaved), 1–3.5(–4.5) dm.

similar to cauline, (erect, surfaces silvery).

blade obovate to broadly oblong, 1.5–5(–8) cm, margins lyrate-pinnatifid, dentate, or entire.

(ascending, subsessile);

blade linear-oblanceolate, (0.6–)0.8–1.3(–1.5) cm, margins entire, (apex acute to narrowly obtuse).

(proximal sometimes petiolate, distal sessile);

blade linear to oblanceolate, often falcate, 1–4(–7) cm, (proximal with base sometimes cuneate), margins entire, repand, or shallowly dentate.

strongly congested, (often sessile or nearly so, lateral to leaves).

dense.

sepals (loosely erect), narrowly oblong, 3–4 mm;

petals spatulate, 5–6 mm.

sepals elliptic or oblong, 3–6.5 mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (widely spreading at anthesis, yellow to orange, claw sometimes whitish), cuneate, obdeltate, or obovate, (tapering to claw), 5–8(–10) mm, (claw often widened at base).

(erect or ascending, straight to slightly curved), 3–6 mm.

(divaricate-ascending, sigmoid or, sometimes, nearly straight), 5–15(–25) mm.

ovate, compressed (latiseptate) on margins and apically, 4–5 mm;

valves pubescent, trichomes densely appressed;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 1–1.5 mm.

(shortly stipitate), subglobose, not or slightly compressed, (3–)4–8 mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous throughout;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules (8–)12–20(–26) per ovary;

style (1.5–)2–4(–5) mm.

plump.

flattened.

= 12, 32.