Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, usually somewhat decumbent, (unbranched), (0.4–)0.5–2 dm.

simple from base, erect, (arising from a condensed rosette), to 1 dm.

(petiole slender, often narrowly winged);

blade obovate to orbicular or rhombic-orbicular, 2–9 cm, (base abruptly narrowed to petiole), margins usually entire, rarely with few scattered teeth, (apex rounded or obtuse, sometimes with apical mucro).

(ascending or erect);

blade elliptic to oblanceolate to obovate, (usually curled from middle to apex), (1.5–)5–7 cm (width 12–20 mm), margins entire.

blade spatulate to oblanceolate, 1–3 cm, margins entire, (apex usually obtuse).

(1–5);

blade oblanceolate, 1–2.5 cm, margins entire.

loose, (elongated in fruit).

compact (or elongated in fruit, to 1 dm, barely exceeding leaves).

sepals linear-oblong, 4–7.5 mm;

petals spatulate, 6–11 mm.

sepals (erect), oblong to linear or spatulate, 5.5–7 mm;

petals spatulate, 10–14 mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade).

(divaricate, slightly sigmoid or nearly straight), 6–12 mm.

(divaricate-ascending, slightly curved), 7–18 mm.

(erect), didymous, suborbicular, inflated, (4–)6–15 × (4–)8–20 mm, (papery, basal and apical sinuses similar, basal rarely shallower, apical deep, narrow and closed or nearly so);

valves retaining seeds after dehiscence, pubescent, trichomes appressed;

replum oblong, constricted, 2–3.5 mm, narrower than fruit, apex obtuse;

ovules (2 or) 4 per ovary;

style 4–6(–9) mm.

didymous, irregular, highly inflated, 8–11(–18) × 10–15 mm, (papery, basal sinus shallower than the deep apical sinus; valves retaining seeds after dehiscence);

replum obovate, not constricted, 1–1.8 mm, apex obtuse, as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules (4–)8(–12) per ovary;

style 4–6 mm, (glabrous).

(dark brown), flattened, (2–3 mm).

flattened, (oblong to elliptic, thin-margined or not).

= 10, 16, 24.