Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, erect or outer ones decumbent, (unbranched, stout, usually sparsely leaved), 1–3 dm.

several from base, decumbent to ascending, (unbranched), 0.5–1.5 dm.

blade linear, 2–7(–10) cm, margins entire, repand, or shallowly dentate.

(petiole slender);

blade obovate, 3–5 cm (width 10–20 mm, base tapering abruptly to petiole), margins entire, (apex rarely slightly acute).

(sessile);

blade (erect), spatulate to linear, (1–)2–3(–4.5) cm, margins entire, sometimes involute, (apex acute or subacute).

blade oblanceolate, 0.5–1.5 cm (width 3–5 mm), margins entire.

dense, (exceeding basal leaves).

subcorymbose.

sepals ovate or oblong, (4.5–)5–6(–7) mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, cucullate, median pair thickened, cucullate apically);

petals spatulate, 7–9(–11) mm (widened at base, slightly retuse).

sepals oblong, 8–10 mm;

petals spatulate, 12–14 mm.

(spreading, sharply sigmoid), 8–15 mm.

(divaricate, straight), 5–10 mm.

(sessile or substipitate), ovate to oblong, not compressed at distal margins or apex, 5–9 mm;

valves sparsely pubescent, trichomes appressed;

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style 3–5 mm.

didymous, mostly highly inflated (strongly flattened at least in 1/2 toward replum), 14–18 × 14–18 mm, (papery, basal sinus slightly notched, apical open, shallow);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), evenly pubescent;

replum lanceolate, 7–10 mm, width 1.5–2.5 mm, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex acute to acuminate;

ovules 8–10 per ovary;

style 5–7 mm.

flattened.

flattened, (2–3 mm).

= 16, ca. 20.

= 48–52, 52, 64, 67–70.