Flora of North America species comparison

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

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

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

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, 2–8 mm, glabrous or hispid.

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.

1.2–2 × 0.9–1.4 mm.

= 28.