Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, unbranched or branched basally and/or distally, (0.8–)1.5–7(–9.4) dm.

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

blade oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, 2–7 cm × 2–7 mm, base attenuate, margins entire or denticulate, apex acute.

petiolate;

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

sessile;

blade margins entire or denticulate.

considerably elongated in fruit.

(densely flowered), elongated or not 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.

sepals linear-oblong, 5–8 mm, lateral pair saccate basally;

petals yellow, narrowly obovate to spatulate, (8–)10–15 × (2–)2.5–4 mm, claw 6–9 mm, apex rounded;

median filaments 6–10 mm;

anthers narrowly linear, 1.7–2 mm.

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

usually ascending, rarely divaricate-ascending, stout, slightly narrower than fruit, (often crowded), 4–7(–10) 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.

suberect to ascending, (subappressed to rachis or not), narrowly linear, straight, not torulose, 2.5–5.8(–6.4) cm × 1.8–2.5 mm, slightly 4-angled, not striped;

valves with somewhat prominent midvein, pubescent outside, trichomes 2–4-rayed, glabrous inside;

ovules 40–56 per ovary;

style stout, 0.5–1.5 mm, moderately to sparsely pubescent;

stigma strongly 2-lobed, lobes as long as wide.

ovate, 2–4 × 1.5–3 mm;

wing continuous or distal.

ovoid to oblong, 1.5–2 × 1–1.2 mm;

not winged.

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

of leaves 2- (or 3-) rayed.

= 12.

= 54.