Flora of North America species comparison

erect, unbranched.

1–4 cm (leafless).

(persistent) basal; rosulate;

petiolate;

blade margins entire.

tufted;

petiole persistent becoming stramineous, 0.5–1 cm;

blades narrowly oblanceolate to broadly linear, 0.5–1.8 cm × 1–2 mm, base attenuate, margins entire, apex obtuse.

(corymbose, few- to several-flowered), not or slightly elongated in fruit.

sepals (early caducous, erect), oblong, (pubescent), base of lateral pair not saccate;

petals white to purplish, oblanceolate, (slightly longer than sepals);

stamens tetradynamous;

filaments not dilated basally;

anthers ovate;

nectar glands confluent, subtending bases of stamens.

sepals purple, 4–5 × 1.5–2 mm;

petals 4.5–6 × 1.7–2.3 mm;

filaments 3.5–4.5 mm;

anthers 0.5–0.7 mm;

gynophore obsolete or to 1 mm.

ascending to suberect, slender.

4–15 mm, pilose.

(erect, siliques or silicles), sessile or short-stipitate, lanceolate, broadly oblong to narrowly ovate, not torulose, latiseptate;

valves each with prominent midvein and somewhat anastomosing lateral veins, glabrous;

replum rounded;

septum complete;

ovules 10–24 per ovary;

stigma capitate.

1.5–3 cm × 5–9 mm;

valves purplish, often glaucous, base obtuse, apex acute to acuminate;

style 1–2 mm.

biseriate, somewhat flattened, not winged, oblong to ovoid;

seed coat (silvery, papillate), not mucilaginous when wetted;

cotyledons accumbent.

brown, 2–3 × 1.2–1.5 mm.

= 7.

= 14.