Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, prostrate, (slender, sparsely pubescent), 0.5–2 dm.

several from base, decumbent to ascending, (arising laterally beneath a dense rosette), less than 0.1 dm.

blade obovate to narrowly elliptic, 1.5–6 cm, margins usually entire, rarely shallowly dentate, (surfaces densely pubescent, often silvery).

(petiole slender);

blade (horizontal on the ground), obovate, 0.5–1.5 cm (width 4–8 mm, base tapering abruptly to petiole), margins entire, (apex usually acute, surfaces silvery from a dense incrustation of appressed, stellate trichomes).

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

blade oblanceolate, 0.5–1 cm (width 2–3 mm), margins entire, (surfaces densely stellate pubescent).

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

congested, (subumbellate, often almost sessile, barely exceeding basal leaves).

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).

sepals (yellowish green), narrowly lanceolate, 4–5 mm;

petals (erect), oblanceolate, 6–7 mm, (claw weakly differentiated from blade).

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

(divaricate, straight), 5–10 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.

didymous, ovate, inflated, 4.8–6 × 6–10 mm, (papery, basal and apical sinuses deep);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), pubescent, trichomes loosely spreading;

replum obovate, 3–4 mm, as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 8 per ovary (2–4 abortive);

style 4–6 mm.

plump.

flattened.