Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple or few from base, decumbent to ascending, (arising laterally from a tight hemispherical tuft of leaves), to 0.15 dm.

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

blade obovate, 3–7 cm, margins entire.

similar to cauline, (erect, surfaces silvery).

blade oblanceolate, 1.5–3 cm, margins entire.

(ascending, subsessile);

blade linear-oblanceolate, (0.6–)0.8–1.3(–1.5) cm, margins entire, (apex acute to narrowly obtuse).

loose.

strongly congested, (often sessile or nearly so, lateral to leaves).

sepals oblong, 5–7 mm;

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

sepals (loosely erect), narrowly oblong, 3–4 mm;

petals spatulate, 5–6 mm.

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

(erect or ascending, straight to slightly curved), 3–6 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.

ovate, compressed (latiseptate) on margins and apically, 4–5 mm;

valves pubescent, trichomes densely appressed;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 1–1.5 mm.

plump.