Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple from base, loosely spreading, usually decumbent, (well exserted from basal leaves, often reddish purple), 0.8–2.4 dm.

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

blade (erect), spatulate to nearly rhombic, 2.5–5(–9) cm, (base gradually narrowed to petiole), margins entire, (flat).

(sessile);

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

blade spatulate, similar to basal, margins entire.

dense, (exceeding basal leaves).

loose, (elongated, exceeding basal leaves).

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 (pale yellow), lingulate to spatulate, 3.5–4 mm;

petals narrowly oblanceolate, 4–6 mm.

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

(ascending, curved or sigmoid), 4–7 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.

ellipsoid, not inflated (strongly latiseptate, more so at apex), (3–)5–9 mm;

valves pubescent, trichomes closely appressed to surface;

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style 2.5–4.5 mm (never more than 1/2 fruit length).

flattened.

plump.

= 16, ca. 20.