Flora of North America species comparison

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

few to several from base, erect, (from basal leaf cluster, branched distally, flowering branches slender, subtended by bracts), 3–6 dm.

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

blade oblanceolate or broadly obovate, to 10 cm, margins usually sinuate-dentate or entire, sometimes lobed.

(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 oblanceolate to narrowly oblong, similar to basal, (distal with base slightly cuneate).

dense, (exceeding basal leaves).

paniculate, (rachises and pedicels more densely pubescent than proximal 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 elliptic, 3–7 mm, (median pair slightly thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (white), broadly ovate, to 12 mm, (narrowing gradually to short claw).

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

(widely divaricate-ascending and straight, or slightly recurved), 10–15 mm, (slender, pubescent).

(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.

(widely spreading to nearly pendent in age, shortly stipitate), globose or subglobose, not or slightly inflated, 3–10 mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 8–12 per ovary;

style ca. 2 mm, (slender, fragile).

flattened.

flattened.

= 16, ca. 20.

= 12.