Flora of North America species comparison

few to several from base, erect, (unbranched, slender), 0.3–1.5(–3) dm.

simple from base, erect, (usually unbranched), to 4.5 dm.

(tufted, erect);

blade linear to very narrowly spatulate, 1–3(–4) cm, margins entire (involute).

blade suborbicular to elliptic, 2–9.5(–11.5) cm, margins entire, sinuate, coarsely dentate, or almost lyrate-pinnatifid.

similar to basal.

similar to basal, blade narrowly linear or, sometimes, orbicular.

relatively dense.

loose (lax).

sepals (greenish yellow), elliptic, 3.5–7 mm;

petals spatulate, 5–6 mm, (not clawed).

sepals elliptic or ovate, (2–)3.5–7.5 mm, (cucullate);

petals 6–11 mm.

(ascending, curved or sigmoid), 2–10 mm.

(recurved, straight, curved, or sigmoid), 6–20 mm.

(erect), ovoid (or longer than broad), usually inflated, 4–5 mm, (apex acute, slightly flattened);

valves pubescent, trichomes appressed;

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style 2–4 mm.

obovoid to subglobose, not inflated (not angustiseptate), 3–6 mm;

valves sparsely pubescent, sometimes glabrous inside, trichomes sessile or stalked;

ovules 4(–8) per ovary;

style (1.6–)3–6 mm.

flattened, (mucilaginous).

flattened.

= 10, 20.

= 10, 30.