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, erect or outer ones decumbent or procumbent, (sometimes much-branched distally), to 6 dm.

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

blade obovate or rhombic, to ca. 2.5 cm, margins usually shallowly dentate, sometimes lyrate-pinnatifid.

(sessile);

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

(proximal shortly petiolate, distal sessile);

blade obovate to rhombic or oblanceolate, 2–4(–6) cm, margins entire or shallowly and remotely dentate.

dense, (exceeding basal leaves).

usually dense, (several-flowered).

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 ovate or oblong (tapering at base), 3.6–4.8(–5.3) mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals obovate to spatulate, 4.5–7.5 mm, (blade narrowed to broad claw, margins sinuate).

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

(strongly recurved), to 20 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.

(± pendent), ovoid, obcompressed, or globose, compressed, 4–6(–8) mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), sparsely pubescent or glabrous, sparsely pubescent inside;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules usually 4, rarely 6, per ovary;

style 2.5–3.6 mm.

flattened.

flattened.

= 16, ca. 20.

= 14.