Flora of North America species comparison

erect to ascending (often flexuous, weak, often tangled with desert shrubs), usually branched distally, 1–8 dm, glabrous or puberulent.

rosulate;

petiole 0.3–2.5 cm;

blade oblanceolate to spatulate, 0.7–6 cm × 2–27 mm, margins usually coarsely dentate or somewhat pinnatifid, rarely entire, (surfaces glabrous).

(median) sessile;

blade lanceolate or oblong, 1.5–7.5 cm × 5–20 mm (smaller distally, base amplexicaul to sagittate), margins dentate or entire, (surfaces glabrous).

(lax), without a terminal cluster of sterile flowers.

sepals erect, (purplish or yellow-green), narrowly lanceolate, 3–6.5 × 0.8–1.5 mm (equal);

petals yellow-green to purplish (often with purple veins), 4.5–9 mm, blade 2–3 × 0.7–1.5 mm, not crisped, claw narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, 2.5–7 × 1–1.5 mm;

filaments slightly tetradynamous, median pairs 2–4.5 mm, lateral pair 1.5–3.5 mm;

anthers oblong, equal, 1.5–2 mm.

reflexed, 1–4.5 mm, usually glabrous, rarely puberulent.

usually reflexed, rarely divaricate (often subfalcate), terete, 2–6 cm × 1.5–2.5 mm;

valves each with prominent midvein, (glabrous or puberulent);

ovules 24–48 per ovary;

style 0.2–2.7 mm;

stigma slightly 2-lobed.

1–2 × 1–1.2 mm.

= 28.