Flora of North America species comparison

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

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

(tufted, erect);

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

(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).

similar to basal.

blade nearly linear, to 1.5 cm, margins entire.

relatively dense.

dense, (subcorymbose).

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

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

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

petals spatulate to oblanceolate, 4–6.5 mm.

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

(recurved), 5–8 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.

(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).

flattened, (mucilaginous).

plump, (mucilaginous when wetted).

= 10, 20.