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, erect to decumbent, (well-exserted beyond basal leaves, loosely spreading), 0.3–1.2 dm.

blade oblanceolate, 2–3 cm, margins entire.

(erect to prostrate, petiole distinct from blade);

blade (inner) spatulate to oblanceolate, or (outer) oblanceolate or orbicular, 1.5–4 cm, margins entire (rarely folded).

(sessile or proximal shortly petiolate);

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

blade spatulate, distinctly different from basal.

loose.

moderately dense, (6–20-flowered).

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 (pale yellow), elliptic, 3.5–5 mm;

petals lingulate, 6–9 mm.

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

(strongly sigmoid), 10–20 mm (2 times longer than fruits).

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.

lanceolate or orbicular, slightly inflated, (2.5–)3–6 mm, (apex usually strongly narrowed);

valves pubescent, trichomes sparse and closely appressed to surface;

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style 2.5–6 mm (usually ± equal in length to mature fruit).

plump.

plump.

= 20.