Flora of North America species comparison

few to several from base, prostrate to decumbent or erect, 0.5–2(–4) dm.

simple or few to several from base, erect to spreading or prostrate, 0.5–2(–3) dm.

blade suborbicular to narrowly or broadly oblanceolate to broadly elliptic or rhombic, (1.2–)2–6(–8) cm, (base usually abruptly narrowed to petiole), margins entire, sinuate, or lobed.

(usually ± rosulate);

blade obovate to oblanceolate, (1–)2–6(–15) cm, margins entire.

(proximal petiolate, distal sessile);

blade obovate or elliptic to spatulate, 0.5–2 cm, margins entire.

(sessile or shortly petiolate);

blade oblanceolate or lingulate, 0.5–1.5(–3) cm, margins entire.

(usually not secund), dense, (sometimes elongated in fruit).

loose.

sepals lanceolate, 4–6(–7) mm;

petals (yellow, cream-yellow, cream-white, or white), obovate to oblanceolate, 6–13 mm, (claw weakly differentiated from blade).

sepals ovate to elliptic, (3–)4–5(–6) mm, (median pair often thickened apically, cucullate);

petals spatulate, 5–6(–7) mm, (blade gradually narrowed to claw).

(erect to divaricate-ascending or recurved, erect in distal 1/3, usually sigmoid, sometimes straight or slightly curved), 4.5–10(–15) mm.

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

(sessile or substipitate), subglobose, obovoid, or ellipsoid, compressed (sometimes slightly angustiseptate), 3–9 mm, (rigid, apex truncate, retuse, or rounded-acute);

valves sparsely or densely pubescent, sometimes sparsely pubescent inside; (septum sometimes fenestrate, perforate, or obsolete);

ovules 4–16 per ovary;

style 1–9 mm.

subglobose to ellipsoid, uncompressed, 4–6(–9) mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous or sparsely pubescent outside, trichomes sessile;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules (8–)10–14(–16) per ovary;

style 1–2.5(–4) mm.

flattened (sometimes slightly).

plump.

= 60.