Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, unbranched, (0.1–)0.4–4dm.

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

blade linear to narrowly linear-oblanceolate, 3–5 cm × 1–2 mm, base attenuate, margins entire or denticulate.

petiolate;

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

blade reduced distally, often as bracts.

considerably elongated in fruit.

(sometimes bracteate basally), 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.

sepals oblong or narrowly so, 5–9 mm, lateral pair slightly saccate basally;

petals usually purple, rarely lilac, oblanceolate to broadly obovate, 10–20 × 3–5 mm, claw 5–9 mm, apex rounded;

median filaments 6–9 mm;

anthers narrowly oblong, 1–1.5 mm.

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

divaricate to ascending, slender, narrower than fruit, (4–)7–24(–35) 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.

erect to divaricate-ascending, narrowly linear, straight or curved inward, not torulose, (3–)5–11(–13) cm × 2–4 mm, latiseptate, not striped;

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

ovules (28–)36–74 per ovary;

style cylindrical, stout, 0.5–3 mm, sparsely pubescent;

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

ovate, 2–4 × 1.5–3 mm;

wing continuous or distal.

oblong, 1.7–2.2 × 0.9–0.1.4 mm;

not winged.

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

of leaves 2-rayed.

= 12.

= 24, 36.