Flora of North America species comparison

simple from base, spreading or erect, (unbranched), ca. 1 dm.

few to several from base, prostrate to erect or spreading, 0.05–0.5(–1.2) dm.

(petiole long, slender);

blade elliptic to obovate, 3–4 cm, (base narrowing to petiole), margins entire.

(petiole and blade differentiated or not);

blade spatulate to elliptic or linear or narrowly oblanceolate, 0.5–1.5(–2.5) cm, margins entire.

(shortly petiolate);

blade elliptic to obovate, 1–2 cm, margins entire.

similar to basal, smaller.

dense.

dense.

sepals narrowly elliptic or oblong, ca. 4.5 mm, (median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals narrowly spatulate, 7–8 mm.

sepals narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, 2.8–6 mm;

petals (pale to deep yellow), narrowly lanceolate to oblanceolate, 5–9 mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade).

(sigmoid), 5–8 mm.

(ascending, straight or slightly curved), 2–6 mm.

(erect, substipitate), globose, ellipsoid, or obovoid, not or slightly compressed, 3–4 mm;

valves sparsely pubescent, sometimes few trichomes inside;

ovules 10–12 per ovary;

style 3–5 mm.

(sessile or substipitate), globose or subglobose to obovoid, not or slightly inflated, 3–6 mm, (firm, apex acute);

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

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style 1.7–6 mm.

flattened.

flattened.