Flora of North America species comparison

simple from base, decumbent to nearly prostrate, 0.5–1.3 dm.

simple or few from base, prostrate or straggling to erect, (sometimes purplish, usually unbranched), (0.5–)1–2(–3) dm.

(strongly rosulate; shortly petiolate);

blade broadly obovate, 1.5–7.5 (width 7.5–26 mm, base gradually tapering to petiole), margins shallowly dentate, (apex obtuse).

blade oblanceolate, 1.5–5(–7) cm, margins entire or shallowly dentate, (flat).

blade oblanceolate to broadly obovate, 1–2.5 cm, margins entire.

blade elliptic to linear, (0.5–)1–2.5(–3) cm, margins usually entire.

dense.

(secund), dense, (elongated in fruit).

sepals (pale yellow or yellow-green), narrowly lanceolate to narrowly deltate, 4–8 mm;

petals yellow, broadly spatulate to obovate, 9–13 mm, (not clawed).

sepals elliptic or oblong, 4–6(–7) mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (often red or lavender when dried), obovate, 6–8.5(–9.5) mm, (narrowing to broad claw).

(divaricate-ascending to widely spreading, slightly sigmoid to curved), 7–12 mm.

(usually sharply recurved, sometimes divaricate-spreading or nearly horizontal), 5–15(–20) mm, (stout).

didymous, slightly flattened (contrary to replum) to uncompressed, 4–9 × 2–8 mm, (strongly coriaceous, apical and basal sinuses narrow, deep);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), pubescent, trichomes appressed;

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

ovules 4 per ovary;

style more than 3 mm.

subglobose, obovoid, or broadly ellipsoid, slightly inflated, (3.5–)4–5.5(–6.5) mm;

valves densely pubescent outside, trichomes spreading or closely appressed, rarely sparsely pubescent inside;

ovules (4–)8(–10) per ovary;

style (slender), 3–5.5(–6.5) mm.

compressed.

slightly flattened.

= 8.