Flora of North America species comparison

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

few or several from base, prostrate to decumbent, (unbranched or branched), 0.5–1.5 dm.

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

blades orbicular to broadly obovate, 1.5–3 cm, margins usually entire, rarely remotely dentate.

(sessile);

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

(sessile or shortly petiolate);

blade elliptic to oblanceolate, 1–1.5(–2.5) cm, margins entire, (apex obtuse).

dense, (exceeding basal leaves).

dense, (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 ovate or oblong-elliptic, 5–5.5 mm, (lateral pair not saccate);

petals cuneate or broadly obovate, ca. 7 mm, (sometimes slightly narrowed to a broad claw, apex sometimes retuse).

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

(sharply recurved), 5–10 mm, (stout).

(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.

subglobose to broadly obovoid, strongly inflated (often slightly angustiseptate), 5–7 mm, (papery);

valves sparsely pubescent; (septum fenestrate, perforate, or obsolete);

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style 2–3 mm.

flattened.

somewhat flattened.

= 16, ca. 20.