Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, unbranched or branched distally, 5–11 dm.

not rosulate;

petiole 1.5–3.8 cm;

blade broadly obovate to broadly ovate or oblong, 3.5–15.5 cm × 22–100 mm, margins entire or coarsely dentate-sinuate.

(densely flowered), without a terminal cluster of sterile flowers.

sepals erect (purplish or sometimes green), ovate-oblong to lanceolate, 7.5–11 × 2.5–3 mm (equal);

petals creamy white (with prominent purple or brown veins),12.5–18.5 mm, blade 6–8 × 2–2.5 mm, not or slightly crisped, claw oblanceolate, 5–9 × 1.2–2 mm;

filaments tetradynamous, median pairs 3–5 mm, lateral pair 2.5–4.5 mm;

anthers narrowly oblong, equal, 3–4.5 mm.

ascending, 5–17 mm.

divaricate to ascending (often distinctly curved), terete, 5.7–12.5 cm × 1.7–2.3 mm;

valves each with obscure midvein;

ovules 76–90 per ovary;

style usually obsolete, rarely to 2.5 mm;

stigma strongly 2-lobed (lobes to 0.4 mm, connivent, opposite replum).

1.4–2.1 × 0.8–1.2 mm.

-line leaves (distalmost) shortly petiolate to subsessile;

blade linear to lanceolate or oblanceolate, margins entire.

= 20.