Flora of North America species comparison

erect, unbranched or branched distally, (woody at base when subshrubs), 1.5–8 dm.

(rosulate when biennial, often withered by fruiting), similar to cauline.

petiolate;

blade (obovate to oblanceolate, 4–22 cm × 3–12 mm, base cuneate to attenuate), margins entire to repand.

considerably elongated in fruit.

sepals oblong, 6–10 mm, lateral pair not or slightly saccate basally;

petals orange, yellow, brown, red, purple, violet, or white, broadly obovate to suborbicular, 20–35x 5–10 mm, claw 7–12 mm, apex rounded;

median filaments 7–9 mm;

anthers linear, 2.5–3.5 mm.

divaricate-ascending to ascending, slender, narrower than fruit, 7–13 mm.

ascending, narrowly linear, straight, not torulose, 3–10 cm × 2–7 mm, latiseptate to terete, not striped;

valves with prominent midvein, pubescent outside, trichomes 2-rayed, glabrous inside;

ovules 32–44 per ovary;

style cylindrical or subconical, slender, 0.5–4 mm, pubescent;

stigma strongly 2-lobed, lobes much longer than wide.

ovate, 2–4 × 1.5–3 mm;

wing continuous or distal.

-chomes of leaves 2-rayed, rarely mixed with fewer 3-rayed ones apically.

= 12.