Flora of North America species comparison

pubescent with 3- or 4-rayed trichomes.

(simple to many from or near base), unbranched, (0.2–) 0.3–2.7(–3.7) dm, hirsute or pubescent throughout, trichomes 3–4-rayed, 0.05–0.4 mm, (sometimes mixed proximally with simple or spurred ones, 0.5–1.2 mm).

not rosulate;

petiole (obscure), not ciliate;

blade oblanceolate to spatulate or broadly obovate, (0.4–)1–3.5(–5) cm × (2–)6–20(–28) mm, margins dentate (in distal 1/2), surfaces pubescent, abaxially with stalked, 2–4-rayed trichomes, 0.1–0.7 mm, adaxially similar or also with fewer, simple trichomes, 0.4–0.7 mm.

0–6 (on proximal 1/3 of stem);

blade similar to basal.

to 3/4 of scape.

10–50(–70)-flowered (throughout or on distal 1/3 of scape), ebracteate, elongated in fruit;

rachis not flexuous, densely pubescent, trichomes 2–4-rayed.

(late ones cleistogamous, apetalous);

sepals (green or pink), oblong, 1.5–2.5 mm, glabrous or pubescent, (trichomes simple);

petals white, spatulate, (2–)2.5–4.5(–5) × 1–2 mm, (emarginate or obtuse);

anthers ovate to oblong, (0.1–)0.25–0.4 mm.

horizontal to divaricate-ascending, straight, (1–)2–7(–10) mm, pubescent as rachis.

oblong to linear or lanceolate, (5–)7–12 mm;

valves: trichomes stalked and 4-rayed, sometimes with 2- or 3-rayed ones;

ovules 20–44 per ovary.

oblong to linear or lanceolate to broadly ovate, plane, flattened, (3–)6–12(–16) × 1.7–2.7(–3) mm;

valves usually puberulent, rarely glabrous, trichomes simple, antrorse, 0.1–0.3 mm, (rarely with 2-rayed ones, or all trichomes short-stalked, 4-rayed, cruciform);

ovules (12–)24–66(–72) per ovary;

style 0.01–0.3(–0.4) mm.

broadly ovoid, 0.5–0.7 × 0.4–0.5 mm.

= 30, 32.