Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple or few to several from base, prostrate, (from below a terminal rosette of leaves, unbranched), 0.2–0.5 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 elliptic to broadly ovate or obovate, (1–)1.5–2.5(–3) cm, margins entire, (apex obtuse).

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

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

dense.

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

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

(straight or slightly curved).

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.

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.

compressed.

plump, (slightly compressed).

= 8.