Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, unbranched or branched (few to several) basally, 0.4–6.5 dm.

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

blade spatulate to broadly oblanceolate, 2.5–7 cm × 3–10 mm, base attenuate, margins dentate or subentire, apex often obtuse, (surfaces pubescent adaxially, trichomes 2 or 3–5-rayed).

petiolate;

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

(distal) sessile;

blade margins often entire.

considerably elongated in fruit.

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.

sepals linear-oblong to oblong, 8–12 mm, lateral pair saccate basally;

petals yellow, broadly obovate to suborbicular, 15–22 × 3.5–6 mm, claw 8–14 mm, apex rounded;

median filaments 7–14 mm;

anthers linear, 3–4 mm.

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

divaricate-ascending, slender, narrower than fruit, 4–12 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 ascending, narrowly linear, straight, torulose, 3.8–14 cm × 1.2–3 mm, latiseptate, not striped;

valves with prominent midvein, pubescent outside, trichomes 2 or 3 (or 4)-rayed, glabrous inside;

ovules 26–44 per ovary;

style cylindrical, slender, (1.5–)2–5.5 mm, sparsely pubescent;

stigma subentire to slightly 2-lobed, lobes as long as wide.

ovate, 2–4 × 1.5–3 mm;

wing continuous or distal.

ovoid, 2–3.4 × 1–2 mm;

not winged or, rarely, winged distally.

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

of leaves 2–5-rayed.

= 12.

= 36.