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, decumbent, (straggling and flexuous, usually branched distally), 4–8 dm.

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

blade narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 4–12 cm, margins entire, sinuate, or shallowly dentate, (apex acute).

(sessile);

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

(sessile or proximal shortly petiolate);

blade linear to narrowly elliptic, 3–4 cm, margins entire, sinuate, or remotely dentate, (apex acute).

dense, (exceeding basal leaves).

loose, (sometimes greatly 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 elliptic, 3.5–4 mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals broadly obovate, 4–5 mm, (sometimes with short, broad claw).

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

(recurved), 15–20(–25) 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.

(pendent), subglobose or broadly ovoid, slightly compressed, 5–7 mm;

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

ovules per ovary unknown;

style 1.5–2 mm.

flattened.

flattened.

= 16, ca. 20.

= 16.