Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple or few to several from base, prostrate, (from below a terminal rosette of leaves, unbranched), 0.2–0.5 dm.

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

blade elliptic to broadly ovate or obovate, (1–)1.5–2.5(–3) cm, margins entire, (apex obtuse).

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

blade spatulate, 3–7 mm, (base cuneate), margins entire.

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

not loose, (scarcely elongated in fruit, 3–5-flowered).

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 (yellow-green), narrowly elliptic to narrowly long-triangular, 3.7–5 mm;

petals oblanceolate to nearly obovate, 7–8.5 mm, (abruptly tapering to narrow claw).

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

(straight or slightly curved).

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.

wider than long, apex truncate to shallowly notched, compressed (angustiseptate), 3–4 mm;

valves densely pubescent, trichomes ascending to erect, sparsely pubescent inside;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 2–3 mm.

plump.

plump, (slightly compressed).