Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, prostrate to decumbent, (usually unbranched, rarely branched distally), 1–3 dm.

simple from base, erect, (arising from a condensed rosette), to 1 dm.

(tufted);

blade broadly obovate, 1–2 cm, margins entire or with 1 or 2 broad teeth, (apex rounded to obtuse).

(ascending or erect);

blade elliptic to oblanceolate to obovate, (usually curled from middle to apex), (1.5–)5–7 cm (width 12–20 mm), margins entire.

blade oblanceolate to nearly oblong, similar to basal, (base cuneate), margins entire.

(1–5);

blade oblanceolate, 1–2.5 cm, margins entire.

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

compact (or elongated in fruit, to 1 dm, barely exceeding leaves).

sepals (yellowish), elliptic to lanceolate, (2–)3–4 mm;

petals spatulate, (3.9–)5–7 mm.

sepals (erect), oblong to linear or spatulate, 5.5–7 mm;

petals spatulate, 10–14 mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade).

(recurved), 6–8(–12) mm.

(divaricate-ascending, slightly curved), 7–18 mm.

(usually pendent), elliptic to subglobose, usually slightly compressed (latiseptate), 3–4 mm;

valves densely pubescent, sometimes with scattered trichomes inside;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style ca. 3 mm.

didymous, irregular, highly inflated, 8–11(–18) × 10–15 mm, (papery, basal sinus shallower than the deep apical sinus; valves retaining seeds after dehiscence);

replum obovate, not constricted, 1–1.8 mm, apex obtuse, as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules (4–)8(–12) per ovary;

style 4–6 mm, (glabrous).

somewhat flattened.

flattened, (oblong to elliptic, thin-margined or not).