Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple from base, prostrate, (arising lateral to rosette), 0.1–0.5 dm.

blade oblanceolate, 2–3 cm, margins entire.

blade suborbicular, (1–)2.5(–3) cm, (base abruptly narrowed to petiole), margins entire, (flat), (surfaces densely silvery pubescent, trichomes in multiple layers, appressed).

(sessile or proximal shortly petiolate);

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

(2–4);

blade oblanceolate, ca. 1 cm, (base cuneate), margins entire, (apex acute).

loose.

condensed.

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 (erect, purplish to greenish), linear-oblong or boat-shaped, 5.5–6.5 mm, (lateral pair more saccate than median);

petals (white), spatulate, 9–12 mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade).

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

(divaricate-ascending, nearly straight), 6–10 mm.

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.

strongly didymous, irregular in shape and size, (base slightly cordate, apex with a deep closed sinus), strongly to somewhat inflated, 6–8 × 6–8 mm (± bladderlike, papery);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), pubescent;

replum elliptic to obovate, not constricted, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex obtuse;

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style 4–5 mm, (sparsely pubescent or glabrous).

plump.

plump.

= 20.