Flora of North America species comparison

simple or few to several from base, usually erect to spreading, sometimes prostrate, 0.5–2 dm.

simple or few from base, prostrate or straggling to erect, (sometimes purplish, usually unbranched), (0.5–)1–2(–3) dm.

blade oblanceolate, 2–3 cm, margins entire.

blade oblanceolate, 1.5–5(–7) cm, margins entire or shallowly dentate, (flat).

(sessile or proximal shortly petiolate);

blade narrowly oblanceolate, 0.5–1.5 cm, margins entire.

blade elliptic to linear, (0.5–)1–2.5(–3) cm, margins usually entire.

loose.

(secund), dense, (elongated in fruit).

sepals ovate to elliptic, (3–)4–5(–6) mm, (median pair often thickened apically, cucullate);

petals obovate, (6–)7–10 mm (nearly as wide, abruptly narrowed to claw, ca. 1 mm wide).

sepals elliptic or oblong, 4–6(–7) mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (often red or lavender when dried), obovate, 6–8.5(–9.5) mm, (narrowing to broad claw).

(erect to divaricate or ascending, sometimes curved), (5–)10–20(–40) mm, (stout).

(usually sharply recurved, sometimes divaricate-spreading or nearly horizontal), 5–15(–20) mm, (stout).

subglobose to ellipsoid, compressed (usually angustiseptate), to 8 mm; (valves not retaining seeds after dehiscence);

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 10–14 per ovary;

style 1–2 mm.

subglobose, obovoid, or broadly ellipsoid, slightly inflated, (3.5–)4–5.5(–6.5) mm;

valves densely pubescent outside, trichomes spreading or closely appressed, rarely sparsely pubescent inside;

ovules (4–)8(–10) per ovary;

style (slender), 3–5.5(–6.5) mm.

plump.

slightly flattened.

= 20.