Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, unbranched or branched distally, (0.8–)2–10(–16) dm, at least sparsely hirsute basally.

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.

soon withered.

(median) sessile;

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

petiolate (proximal and median 0.5–3 cm);

blade lanceolate to oblong or oblanceolate, pinnatifid, 2–12 cm × 5–50 mm, (smaller with fewer lobes distally), margins of lateral lobes dentate or entire.

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

without a terminal cluster of sterile flowers, (considerably elongated in fruit).

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.

sepals erect, oblong, 2–4 × 0.7–1 mm, (not saccate or urceolate);

petals usually white to creamy white, rarely pinkish, (narrowly oblanceolate), 2.5–5(–6.5) × 0.9–1.1 mm, not channeled or crisped, claw undifferentiated from blade;

filaments slightly tetradynamous, median pairs 3–4.5 mm, lateral pair 1.5–2.5 mm;

anthers ovate, equal, 0.4–0.7 mm.

reflexed, 2–8 mm, glabrous or hispid.

strongly reflexed or spreading, (slender or thickened), (0.7–)1–2.2(–3) mm.

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.

ascending or descending (straight to slightly curved, sometimes subtorulose), terete, 2–4.8(–5.7) cm × 0.7–1.2 mm;

valves each with obscure midvein, (glabrous or sparsely pubescent);

ovules 14–60 per ovary;

style 0.5–2 mm;

stigma subentire.

1.2–2 × 0.9–1.4 mm.

(brown), 0.9–1.5 × 0.6–1 mm.

= 28.

= 28.