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, (usually exceeding basal leaves), 0.3–0.7 dm.

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

blade linear-spatulate, 1.5–4 cm, (base narrowed gradually 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 spatulate, similar to basal.

dense, (exceeding basal leaves).

crowded in distal 1/3, (4–10-flowered).

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 (pale yellow), oblong to elliptic, 3–4 mm, (median pair usually thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (sometimes with slight tinge of orange basally), lingulate, 4–6 mm.

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

(loosely to strongly sigmoid), 6–10 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.

ellipsoid, slightly inflated (somewhat latiseptate), 4–5 mm, (apex acute);

valves pubescent, trichomes erect, appearing slightly shaggy;

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

styles 2.5–3 mm, (shorter than mature fruits).

flattened.

± flattened, convex on outer side.

= 16, ca. 20.