Flora of North America species comparison

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

several from base, erect, (unbranched), 0.2–0.3 dm.

blade oblanceolate, 2–3 cm, margins entire.

(few), similar to cauline.

(sessile or proximal shortly petiolate);

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

(petiole not differentiated from blade);

blade (somewhat succulent), linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 5–12 mm, margins entire.

loose.

dense, (few-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 (yellowish), elliptic, 3–4.5 mm;

petals (erect or, more commonly, arching), spatulate to oblanceolate, 5.8–7 mm, (claw not or weakly differentiated from blade).

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

(ascending to divaricate-ascending, ± straight), 3.5–6 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.

(coppery or reddish brown in age), broadly ovoid, slightly inflated, 3–4 mm;

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

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style 1.8–3 mm.

plump.

flattened.

= 20.