Flora of North America species comparison

simple from base, erect, (unbranched, sparsely leaved), to 7 dm.

several from base, ± erect, exceeding basal rosette by ± 0.5 dm.

blade elliptic or obovate to oblong, 4–15 cm, margins entire, dentate, or lyrate-pinnatifid.

(forming a strong rosette; long-petiolate);

blade oblanceolate to ovate or orbicular, (1.5–)2–4(–8) cm, (base usually abruptly tapering to petiole), margins entire.

(proximal often narrowed to short petiole, distal sessile);

blade broadly elliptic to obovate or rhombic, 0.5–3(–5) cm, margins entire.

blade oblanceolate, 1–2 cm, margin entire, (apex acute).

dense or slightly elongated.

congested, (greatly exceeding leaves).

sepals elliptic to ovate, 3.5–6(–7) mm, (median pair usually thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (white, often purple-veined, fading purplish), suborbicular to obovate, obdeltate, or cuneate, 4.5–10(–12) mm, (often narrowed to broad claw, apex emarginate, less frequently claw undifferentiated from blade).

sepals often keeled, 6–8 mm;

petals spatulate, 8–10 mm.

(spreading or recurved, loosely sigmoid), 5–25 mm.

(spreading, straight or slightly curved), 7–11 mm.

(pendent or horizontal, sessile or substipitate), subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, not or slightly inflated, (4–)5–8 mm;

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

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 4–8(–12) per ovary;

style 1–3(–4) mm.

didymous, highly inflated, 8–22 × 10–25 mm, (papery, basal and apical sinuses deep);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), densely pubescent, trichomes appressed;

replum linear to oblong, as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 8 per ovary;

style 7–9 mm.

flattened.

flattened.

= 18, 36.

= 16.