Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, decumbent to ascending, (unbranched), 0.5–1.5 dm.

simple or few to several from base, prostrate, (from below a terminal rosette of leaves, unbranched), 0.2–0.5 dm.

(petiole slender);

blade obovate, 3–5 cm (width 10–20 mm, base tapering abruptly to petiole), margins entire, (apex rarely slightly acute).

blade elliptic to broadly ovate or obovate, (1–)1.5–2.5(–3) cm, margins entire, (apex obtuse).

blade oblanceolate, 0.5–1.5 cm (width 3–5 mm), margins entire.

blade spatulate, 3–7 mm, (base cuneate), margins entire.

subcorymbose.

not loose, (scarcely elongated in fruit, 3–5-flowered).

sepals oblong, 8–10 mm;

petals spatulate, 12–14 mm.

sepals (yellow-green), narrowly elliptic to narrowly long-triangular, 3.7–5 mm;

petals oblanceolate to nearly obovate, 7–8.5 mm, (abruptly tapering to narrow claw).

(divaricate, straight), 5–10 mm.

(straight or slightly curved).

didymous, mostly highly inflated (strongly flattened at least in 1/2 toward replum), 14–18 × 14–18 mm, (papery, basal sinus slightly notched, apical open, shallow);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), evenly pubescent;

replum lanceolate, 7–10 mm, width 1.5–2.5 mm, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex acute to acuminate;

ovules 8–10 per ovary;

style 5–7 mm.

wider than long, apex truncate to shallowly notched, compressed (angustiseptate), 3–4 mm;

valves densely pubescent, trichomes ascending to erect, sparsely pubescent inside;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 2–3 mm.

flattened, (2–3 mm).

plump, (slightly compressed).

= 48–52, 52, 64, 67–70.