Flora of North America species comparison

simple or few to several from base, erect, (usually unbranched), (0.4–)0.7–1.4(–1.8) dm.

(without distinct petiole);

blade linear to narrowly spatulate, 0.5–3 cm × 0.5–2(–3) mm, base attenuate or cuneate, margins dentate (with 1 or 2 teeth per side) or entire, apex obtuse, (surfaces glabrous or sparsely pubescent).

1–4 (each stem); (subsessile);

blade similar to basal, smaller distally. (Racemes not elongated in fruit.) Fruiting pedicels erect to divaricate, 1–4.5 mm.

sepals 1.8–2.8 × 1–1.4 mm (sometimes slightly saccate basally);

petals white or purplish (especially claw), (broadly obovate or spatulate), 2.5–3.5(–4) × 1.3–2 mm;

filaments 1.5–2 mm;

anthers oblong, 0.4–0.6 mm.

linear, more or less torulose, (straight or somewhat curved), (0.5–)0.9–1.2(–1.4) cm × 0.9–1.3 mm (uniform in width);

valves glabrous or sparsely pubescent, trichomes simple and submalpighiaceous;

septum margin not expanded, or not basally;

ovules 20–28 per ovary;

style 0.3–0.5 mm;

stigma weakly 2-lobed to entire.

uniseriate to weakly biseriate, oblong, 0.8–1 × 0.3–0.6 mm.

= 42.