Flora of North America species comparison

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

few from base, well-exserted from basal leaves, 0.4–1(–1.2) 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 (erect), obovate to orbicular, 1.5–2.5 cm, (base evidently distinct from petiole), margins entire, (folded).

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

blade spatulate, margins entire.

dense.

compact, subumbellate.

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 (pale yellow), 4–5 mm;

petals lingulate, 6–7 mm.

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

(ascending, curved to slightly sigmoid), 5–8 mm.

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.

ovoid to ellipsoid, slightly inflated, (apex not compressed), 3–4 mm;

valves pubescent, trichomes erect on mature fruits, (± appearing fuzzy);

ovules 8 per ovary;

style 4–5 mm, (glabrous).

compressed.

plump.

= 8.