Flora of North America species comparison

simple or several from base (rosette), erect, often branched distally, 2–7(–10) dm, (hirsute basally, trichomes simple and minutely stalked, forked, rarely almost exclusively glabrous).

petiole 0.7–3 cm, (ciliate or not);

blade broadly spatulate to narrowly oblanceolate, 1.2–10 cm × 7–30 mm, margins entire or dentate, apex obtuse or acute, surfaces usually pubescent, sometimes glabrous, trichomes simple, forked and stalked, stellate.

(2–)4–12(–18), (well-spaced or, rarely, overlapping);

blade ovate to oblong or lanceolate, 1.5–6.5(–10) cm × 5–30 mm, base auriculate, margins dentate or entire, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces sparsely hirsute or glabrous.

simple or branched.

sepals oblong, 3.5–5 × 1.2–2 mm, lateral pair saccate basally;

petals white, rarely pink, linear-oblanceolate or narrowly spatulate, (5.5–) 6.5–9(–10) × 1.5–3 mm, apex obtuse;

filaments 3.5–6 mm;

anthers oblong, 0.7–1 mm.

erect to erect-ascending, 3.5–10(–15) mm, (glabrous or sparsely pubescent).

erect to erect-ascending, (often appressed to rachis), torulose, 3.5–6.5 cm × 1.2–1.8(–2) mm;

valves each with prominent midvein extending full length or to middle;

ovules 54–80 per ovary;

style (0.1–)0.3–1 mm.

usually narrowly winged throughout or only distally, rarely not winged, oblong or suborbicular, 1–1.8 × 0.9–1.3 mm;

wing to 0.2 mm wide distally.

= 32, 64.