Flora of North America species comparison

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

few to several from base, erect or outer decumbent, 0.5–2.5 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 suborbicular to elliptic or ovate or deltate, 0.5–2(–6.5) cm, margins entire or shallowly dentate.

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

(proximal shortly petiolate, distal usually sessile);

blade narrowly elliptic or obovate, (0.5–)1–2.5(–4) cm, margins entire.

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

compact, (± subumbellate to densely corymbiform, elongated or not).

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, 4.5–7(–8.5) mm, (median pair thickened apically);

petals (sometimes white), suborbicular to obovate or obdeltate, 6.5–15 mm, (base narrowing to broad claw, apex sometimes emarginated).

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

(usually spreading at right angles, sometimes nearly erect, ± straight), 5–15(–20) mm, (stout).

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.

(sessile or shortly stipitate, less than 1 mm), subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, inflated or slightly compressed (terete or subterete), (4–)5–8(–9) mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 8–16 per ovary;

style 4–8(–9) mm.

slightly flattened.

flattened.

= 10, 20, 30.