Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple from base, prostrate to decumbent, (unbranched, from within and below leaf clusters, slender), 0.2–0.8 dm.

(tufted);

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

(tufted, erect or ascending, silvery);

blade linear to oblanceolate or (outer) oblanceolate to obovate or rhombic, 1.5–3.3 cm, (base sometimes subhastate), margins entire or dentate, (often involute).

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

blade nearly linear, to 1.5 cm, margins entire.

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

dense, (subcorymbose).

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

petals spatulate, (3.9–)5–7 mm.

sepals (yellow-green), lanceolate, (2.5–)3.5–4.5 mm;

petals spatulate to oblanceolate, 4–6.5 mm.

(recurved), 6–8(–12) mm.

(recurved), 5–8 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.

(usually pendent), obdeltate, compressed (angustiseptate), 2–4 mm, (wider than long, base tapered to acute angle, apex truncate with inflated shoulders);

valves densely pubescent; (septum obsolete or with a narrow fringe inside of replum, funicles attached close to replum apex);

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 2–4 mm, (slender).

somewhat flattened.

plump, (mucilaginous when wetted).