Flora of North America species comparison

simple to several from base, erect, often outer decumbent, (unbranched or branched distally), 1–7 dm.

few from base, well-exserted from basal leaves, 0.4–1(–1.2) dm.

blade oblanceolate to elliptic, 1.5–8(–11.5) cm, margins lyrate-pinnatifid to dentate or repand, (abaxial surface densely pubescent, adaxial sparsely pubescent).

blade (erect), obovate to orbicular, 1.5–2.5 cm, (base evidently distinct from petiole), margins entire, (folded).

(proximal petiolate, distal sessile);

blade oblanceolate to oblong, 1–7 cm, margins dentate to repand.

blade spatulate, margins entire.

loose, (elongated).

compact, subumbellate.

sepals elliptic or broadly ovate, 3–6.5(–8) mm, (median pair slightly thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (yellow to orange), broadly obovate, 6–11 mm, (narrowing gradually to short claw).

sepals (pale yellow), 4–5 mm;

petals lingulate, 6–7 mm.

(usually divaricate-spreading, sometimes horizontal or shallowly recurved, straight or slightly curved), (7–)10–20(–25) mm, (slender or stout).

(ascending, curved to slightly sigmoid), 5–8 mm.

(stipitate or subsessile, gynophore 1–2 mm), globose, subglobose, obpyriform, or obovoid, not or slightly inflated, 3–9 mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous throughout or sparsely pubescent inside;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 8–20(–28) per ovary;

style 2–4.5 mm.

ovoid to ellipsoid, slightly inflated, (apex not compressed), 3–4 mm;

valves pubescent, trichomes erect on mature fruits, (± appearing fuzzy);

ovules 8 per ovary;

style 4–5 mm, (glabrous).

slightly flattened.

plump.