Flora of North America species comparison

simple or few to several from base, erect, (unbranched, slender), 0.2–1(–1.5) dm.

several from base, decumbent to erect or ascending (unbranched), 1–2.5 dm.

(densely tufted, not rosulate, reflexed in age);

blade obovate to oblanceolate, 0.7–2(–3) cm, margins usually entire, sometimes repand or shallowly dentate, (apex acute).

(outer ones spreading, inner erect or ascending);

blade ovate, often broadly so, 4–7 cm, margins repand to lyrate-lobed.

similar to basal, becoming narrower distally, somewhat reflexed, (distal) blade linear or narrowly oblanceolate, 0.5–2.5(–5.5) cm.

similar to basal, blade oblanceolate or narrowly oblong, reduced in size, (base gibbous).

dense, often subcorymbiform.

loose, (elongated).

sepals (green or greenish yellow), ovate or broadly ovate, 3.5–6.5 mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, cucullate, median pair thickened, slightly cucullate apically);

petals (spreading), oblanceolate to obovate, 5.5–8(–10) mm, (claw erect).

sepals lanceolate or narrowly oblong, 5.8–7.2 mm;

petals (erect, sometime purplish or drying purple), narrowly oblong to oblanceolate, 7–10 mm, (not or weakly clawed).

(erect or divaricate-spreading, straight or slightly curved), (3–)5–10(–15) mm.

(ascending to divaricate-ascending, sigmoid to nearly straight), 10–17 mm.

(sessile or substipitate), suborbicular to ovoid or ellipsoid, slightly inflated, 4–7 mm;

valves pubescent outside, trichomes substipitate, spreading, sometimes sparsely pubescent inside, trichomes sessile, smooth;

ovules 4–10(–16) per ovary;

style (0.5–)1–2(–4) mm (shorter than fruit).

didymous, globose or subglobose, inflated, 10–13 mm, (papery, basal and apical sinuses deep);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), pubescent, trichomes ascending, appearing fuzzy;

replum oblong to oblanceolate, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex obtuse;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style (4–)5–7 mm.

flattened.

plump, (suborbicular).

= 10.