Flora of North America species comparison

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

several from base, prostrate, (slender, sparsely pubescent), 0.5–2 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 obovate to narrowly elliptic, 1.5–6 cm, margins usually entire, rarely shallowly dentate, (surfaces densely pubescent, often silvery).

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

blade oblanceolate to spatulate, 0.5–1 cm, margins entire, (surfaces often sparsely pubescent).

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

(narrow), loose, (elongated in fruit).

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 (greenish brown, sometimes magenta), linear or elliptic, 4.3–6(–7.5) mm, (median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (frequently pink or magenta in distal 1/3–1/2), spatulate to oblanceolate, 6–10(–12) mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade).

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

(ascending to somewhat spreading, straight to slightly curved), 4–8(–12) 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.

broadly ovoid to suborbicular, inflated, (terete or, often, slightly angustiseptate), 3–6mm;

valves sparsely pubescent;

ovules usually 4, rarely 6–8 per ovary;

style 3–6.5 mm.

slightly flattened.

plump.

= 10, 20, 30.