Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, decumbent, (arising laterally, unbranched), 1–3 dm.

several from base, decumbent to ascending, (arising laterally beneath a dense rosette), less than 0.1 dm.

(numerous); (petiole slender, rarely with a few broad teeth);

blade obovate, 3–7 cm, margins entire.

(petiole slender);

blade (horizontal on the ground), obovate, 0.5–1.5 cm (width 4–8 mm, base tapering abruptly to petiole), margins entire, (apex usually acute, surfaces silvery from a dense incrustation of appressed, stellate trichomes).

blade oblanceolate, 1.5–3 cm, margins entire.

blade oblanceolate, 0.5–1 cm (width 2–3 mm), margins entire, (surfaces densely stellate pubescent).

loose.

congested, (subumbellate, often almost sessile, barely exceeding basal leaves).

sepals oblong, 5–7 mm;

petals (yellow to purplish), spatulate, 8–12 mm.

sepals (yellowish green), narrowly lanceolate, 4–5 mm;

petals (erect), oblanceolate, 6–7 mm, (claw weakly differentiated from blade).

(ascending or spreading, slightly curved or sigmoid), 1–2 cm.

(divaricate, straight), 5–10 mm.

obcordate, angustiseptate, somewhat inflated, (not bladdery), 5–7 × 6–9 mm, (papery, basal sinus absent, apical sinus broad and open);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), loosely pubescent, trichomes spreading;

replum ovate, 5–7 mm, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex acute or obtuse;

ovules 4–6 per ovary;

style 5–7 mm.

didymous, ovate, inflated, 4.8–6 × 6–10 mm, (papery, basal and apical sinuses deep);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), pubescent, trichomes loosely spreading;

replum obovate, 3–4 mm, as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 8 per ovary (2–4 abortive);

style 4–6 mm.

flattened.