Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple or few from base, decumbent, (straggling and flexuous, usually branched distally), 4–8 dm.

(tufted, erect);

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

blade narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 4–12 cm, margins entire, sinuate, or shallowly dentate, (apex acute).

similar to basal.

(sessile or proximal shortly petiolate);

blade linear to narrowly elliptic, 3–4 cm, margins entire, sinuate, or remotely dentate, (apex acute).

relatively dense.

loose, (sometimes greatly elongated).

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

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

sepals elliptic, 3.5–4 mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals broadly obovate, 4–5 mm, (sometimes with short, broad claw).

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

(recurved), 15–20(–25) 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.

(pendent), subglobose or broadly ovoid, slightly compressed, 5–7 mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous throughout;

ovules per ovary unknown;

style 1.5–2 mm.

flattened, (mucilaginous).

flattened.

= 10, 20.

= 16.