Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, decumbent to erect or ascending (unbranched), 1–2.5 dm.

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

(outer ones spreading, inner erect or ascending);

blade ovate, often broadly so, 4–7 cm, margins repand to lyrate-lobed.

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

similar to basal, blade oblanceolate or narrowly oblong, reduced in size, (base gibbous).

(proximal shortly petiolate, distal sessile);

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

loose, (elongated).

loose.

sepals lanceolate or narrowly oblong, 5.8–7.2 mm;

petals (erect, sometime purplish or drying purple), narrowly oblong to oblanceolate, 7–10 mm, (not or weakly clawed).

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).

(ascending to divaricate-ascending, sigmoid to nearly straight), 10–17 mm.

(recurved, sigmoid), 5–15 mm.

didymous, globose or subglobose, inflated, 10–13 mm, (papery, basal and apical sinuses deep);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), pubescent, trichomes ascending, appearing fuzzy;

replum oblong to oblanceolate, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex obtuse;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style (4–)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.

plump, (suborbicular).

flattened.

= 10, 20.