Flora of North America species comparison

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

several from base, decumbent, (unbranched, slender), 0.5–1 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).

(strongly rosulate);

blade usually oblanceolate or broader, sometimes triangular, 2–3.5 cm (width 5–10 mm), margins entire or with 1 or 2 broad teeth, (apex acute).

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

blade oblanceolate, 1–1.5 cm (width 2–4 mm), margins entire, (apex acute).

dense.

congested, (elongated moderately 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 linear, 5–7 mm;

petals spatulate, 8–10 mm, (apex often somewhat truncate).

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

(spreading, straight or somewhat 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.

(erect), didymous, suborbicular, inflated, 2–5(–8) × 4–8(–10)mm, (coriaceous, base slightly cordate or nearly obtuse, sinus obsolete or absent, apical sinus broad and deep);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), pubescent, trichomes appressed, (silvery on ovaries and immature fruit);

replum obovate to oblong, as wide as or wider than fruit, rarely somewhat constricted basally, apex obtuse;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 5–7 mm.

compressed.

slightly flattened.

= 8.

= 8.