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 (and stout) or outer ones decumbent, (unbranched or branched, stiff and densely foliate, sterile leaf-bearing branches sometimes present), to 4 dm.

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

blade obovate or elliptic, to ca. 3 cm, margins sinuate or shallowly dentate.

(sessile);

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

(proximal usually shortly petiolate, distal sessile);

blade obovate to broadly elliptic, 1–3 cm, margins sinuate or shallowly toothed.

dense, (exceeding basal leaves).

dense, compact, (elongated in fruit).

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 elliptic or narrowly elliptic or oblong, (3.8–)4.5–5.5 mm, (lateral pair cucullate, very convex, median pair tapering to base, thickened apically, cucullate, often slightly keeled);

petals cuneate, 6.5–8 mm, (slightly expanded at base, margins sinuate, apex retuse or entire).

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

(recurved, curved or sigmoid), somewhat expanded apically.

(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.

(sessile or substipitate), oblong or broadly elliptic, compressed (latiseptate), 5–8 mm;

valves pubescent, trichomes spreading, sparsely pubescent inside;

ovules 4–6 per ovary;

style 3–5 mm.

flattened.

flattened.

= 16, ca. 20.