Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple or few from base, ascending to erect, (0.5–)1–2(–3.5) dm.

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

(petiole tapering to blade);

blade rhombic to elliptic and irregularly angular, sometimes spatulate to oblanceolate, 1.5–7.5(–10) cm, margins entire.

(sessile);

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

(not or loosely overlapping, petiolate or distal sessile);

blade spatulate to oblanceolate, 1–4 cm, margins entire.

dense, (exceeding basal leaves).

crowded, elongated.

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, oblong, or elliptic 4–7.5 mm, (median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals spatulate or broadly cuneate, 6–13 mm, (claw slightly expanded at base).

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

(ascending, curved or sigmoid), 6–12(–20) 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.

(substipitate), globose or obovoid to ellipsoid, sometimes slightly obcompressed, 4–9 mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous throughout;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 4–24 per ovary;

style (2–)4–7 mm.

flattened.

flattened.

= 16, ca. 20.

= 10.