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.

erect, usually branched distally, 2.5–12 dm, hispid.

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).

weakly rosulate;

petiole 0.3–3 cm;

blade linear-oblanceolate to linear-oblong, 0.7–7 cm × 2–18 mm, margins coarsely dentate or pinnately lobed.

(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).

(median) sessile;

blade linear-lanceolate, 5–16 cm × 5–40 mm, (smaller distally, base amplexicaul to sagittate), margins dentate or (distalmost) entire.

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

(densely flowered), 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.

sepals erect (purple or yellow to creamy white), lanceolate, 3–8 × 1–1.8 mm (equal);

petals purple or yellowish (often with darker purple veins), 5–15 mm, blade 2–6 × 1–1.5 mm, not crisped, claw narrowly oblanceolate or oblong, 3–9 × 1–1.5 mm;

filaments tetradynamous, median pairs 3–6 mm, lateral pair 2–5 mm;

anthers oblong, equal, 1–3 mm.

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

reflexed, 2–8 mm, glabrous or hispid.

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.

reflexed (often straight, rarely curved), latiseptate or 4-angled, 4.5–10 cm × 1–1.5 mm;

valves each with prominent midvein;

ovules 56–82 per ovary;

style 0.5–3.5mm;

stigma slightly 2-lobed.

1–2 × 1–1.2 mm.

1.2–2 × 0.9–1.4 mm.

= 28.

= 28.