Flora of North America species comparison

few from base, erect with outer usually decumbent, 1–3.5(–5) dm.

simple or few to several from base, erect, (sometimes branched), to 4 dm.

(erect);

blade narrowly lanceolate to linear or (outer) oblanceolate, (1–)2–6(–9) cm, margins usually entire, rarely shallowly dentate, (inner involute, outer usually flat, base usually with some simple trichomes).

blade elliptic to rhombic, 3–8 cm, (base narrowing gradually to petiole), margins entire, repand, coarsely toothed, or pinnatifid.

blade narrowly oblanceolate to linear, (1–)2–4(–8) cm, margins flat or involute.

(proximal often shortly petiolate, distal sessile);

blade linear or narrowly obovate, 1.5–6(–10) cm, margins entire, repand, or shallowly toothed.

compact, (elongated and loose in fruit, densely-flowered).

usually loose.

sepals oblong to broadly elliptic, 4–7(–8) mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, median pair cucullate);

petals oblanceolate or obovate, (5–)6.5–9.5(–11) mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade, or blade gradually narrowed to claw).

sepals elliptic or ovate, 4–6 mm, (lateral pair usually subsaccate);

petals obovate to obdeltate, 6–10 mm, (apex often emarginate).

(usually recurved), (5–)10–20(–25) mm.

(usually divaricate, sometimes horizontal, straight or slightly curved), 8–20 mm.

subglobose or obovoid, usually inflated, sometimes slightly compressed, (3–)4–6 mm;

valves densely pubescent, trichomes spreading, usually pubescent inside, trichomes appressed, sessile;

ovules (4–)8–12(–16) per ovary;

style 3–4.5(–6.5) mm.

not didymous, ± globose, slightly inflated, 4–6 mm;

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

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 2–3.5 mm; (stigma expanded).

slightly flattened.

flattened, (margined).

= 10, 20, 30.

= 10.