Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, erect or outer decumbent, (often several-branched, branches slender and flexuous), to 8 dm.

several from base (crowded), erect, not exceeding leaves.

blade pinnatisect to repand, 3–9(–14) cm, margins entire.

usually absent.

(sometimes secund, proximal usually petiolate, distal sessile);

blade elliptic, 1–6 cm, (distal with cuneate base), margins entire or deeply dentate.

(petiole not differentiated from blade);

blade linear-oblanceolate, 3–8(–13) mm, margins entire.

dense.

(secund), dense, corymbose, (few-flowered, not or barely exceeding leaves).

sepals elliptic to oblong, 3–5.5 mm, (median pair slightly thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (sometimes drying slightly purplish), suborbicular or broadly ovate, 4.5–7(–9) mm, (narrowing gradually to short claw).

sepals (yellow-green), linear to narrowly triangular, 3.7–4.8 mm, (lateral pair subsaccate);

petals (deep yellow, slightly orange in center), spatulate, 5.2–6.5 mm, (claw joined at right angle).

(horizontal or recurved and ascending at tip, sometimes loosely sigmoid), (5–)10–20 mm.

(ascending to divaricate-ascending, straight), 3.5–6 mm.

globose or broadly ellipsoid, not or slightly inflated, (4–)5–8 mm, (smooth);

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules (8–)12–16(–20) per ovary;

style (1.5–)2–3(–4) mm.

(becoming reddish or copper-colored in age), ovate, often slightly compressed (at margins apically), 3–5 mm, (apex acute);

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous; (septum perforate or not);

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style 1.8–3 mm.

flattened.

plump or slightly flattened, (strongly mucilaginous).

= 12.