Flora of North America species comparison

erect to decumbent, branched basally, (slender).

several from base (caudex), ascending to procumbent, 0.7–3(–5) dm, pubescent.

basal and cauline;

petiolate or sessile [subsessile];

basal rosulate, petiolate, blade margins entire or dentate;

cauline petiolate or sessile [subsessile], blade (base not auriculate), margins entire or dentate.

petiole 0.1–1 cm;

blade obovate, oblanceolate, or rhombic, (0.5–)1–3(–4.5) cm × (2–)4–13(–20) mm, base cuneate to attenuate, margins entire or 1–3 teeth on each side, surfaces densely pubescent.

petiolate or (distalmost) sessile;

blade similar to basal.

(few- to several-flowered), elongated in fruit.

1–13-flowered, (lax).

sepals erect, oblong, lateral pair saccate basally, (glabrous or pubescent);

petals usually purple to violet, rarely white [pink], obovate [spatulate], (apex obtuse);

stamens tetradynamous;

filaments narrowly winged, (lateral pair with toothed appendage);

anthers oblong [ovate];

nectar glands lateral, semi-annular, extrastaminal.

sepals 6–10 × 1–1.5 mm;

petals (10–)15–28 × 4–7(–8) mm, (attenuate to claw, 5–12 mm);

filaments 5–10 mm;

anthers 1.2–1.6 mm.

erect to divaricate, slender.

erect to ascending, 5–12(–16) mm.

siliques or, rarely, silicles, sessile, ellipsoid, [linear, oblong, or elliptic], not torulose, terete or latiseptate;

valves each with distinct midvein, pubescent or, rarely, glabrous;

replum rounded;

septum usually complete, sometimes perforate;

ovules 10–40 per ovary; (style persistent);

stigma capitate.

terete or slightly flattened, 0.7–2(–2.8) cm × 2–4(–4.8) mm;

valves: trichomes long-setiform and forked, mixed with smaller, stellate ones;

style 4–12 mm.

biseriate, flattened, not winged, ovoid [elliptical];

seed coat not mucilaginous when wetted;

cotyledons accumbent.

1.2–16 × 0.7–1 mm.

= 16.