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, exceeding basal rosette by ± 0.5 dm.

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

(forming a strong rosette; long-petiolate);

blade oblanceolate to ovate or orbicular, (1.5–)2–4(–8) cm, (base usually abruptly tapering to petiole), margins entire.

(sessile);

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

blade oblanceolate, 1–2 cm, margin entire, (apex acute).

dense, (exceeding basal leaves).

congested, (greatly exceeding 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 often keeled, 6–8 mm;

petals spatulate, 8–10 mm.

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

(spreading, straight or slightly curved), 7–11 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, highly inflated, 8–22 × 10–25 mm, (papery, basal and apical sinuses deep);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), densely pubescent, trichomes appressed;

replum linear to oblong, as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 8 per ovary;

style 7–9 mm.

flattened.

flattened.

= 16, ca. 20.

= 16.