Flora of North America species comparison

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

few to several from base, decumbent, 0.5–1(–2) dm, (rather stout, sparsely pubescent).

(tufted, erect);

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

blade elliptic to suborbicular, 1.5–3.5(–5.5) cm, margins entire or shallowly dentate (at base, surfaces densely pubescent, silvery).

similar to basal.

(petiolate or distal nearly sessile);

blade elliptic to obovate, 0.5–1.5 cm, margins entire.

relatively dense.

dense, congested, (few-flowered).

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

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

sepals lanceolate, oblanceolate, or narrowly elliptic, 3.8–5 mm, (median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals narrowly lanceolate to linear, 6–10(–13) mm.

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

(spreading or recurved, sometimes loosely sigmoid), 2–6.5 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.

(sessile or substipitate), broadly obcordate, obdeltate, or obcompressed, slightly compressed (angustiseptate), 3–5(–7) mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), sparsely pubescent or glabrous, trichomes appressed;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 8–16 per ovary;

style (1.8–)3–6(–7) mm.

flattened, (mucilaginous).

slightly flattened, (ellipsoid to suborbicular).

= 10, 20.