Flora of North America species comparison

few to several from base, erect, (usually exceeding basal leaves), 0.3–0.7 dm.

few to several from base, erect or outer ones decumbent, 0.5–4 dm.

blade linear-spatulate, 1.5–4 cm, (base narrowed gradually to petiole), margins entire.

(long-petiolate);

blade elliptic to obovate or rhombic, 2–6(–9) cm, margins entire.

blade spatulate, similar to basal.

(sessile or shortly petiolate);

blade oblanceolate to spatulate, 1–3 cm, (proximal broader), margins entire.

crowded in distal 1/3, (4–10-flowered).

dense, (relatively short).

sepals (pale yellow), oblong to elliptic, 3–4 mm, (median pair usually thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (sometimes with slight tinge of orange basally), lingulate, 4–6 mm.

sepals elliptic or narrowly oblong, 4–5.4 mm, (tapered to apex);

petals (white, base and claw yellow, conspicuously purple-veined), usually broadly obovate or rhombic, 6–10 mm, (± equal to blade, tapering to slender claw).

(loosely to strongly sigmoid), 6–10 mm.

(erect to spreading, ascending, or (proximal) horizontal, straight to slightly curved, sometimes loosely sigmoid), 6–12(–20) mm.

ellipsoid, slightly inflated (somewhat latiseptate), 4–5 mm, (apex acute);

valves pubescent, trichomes erect, appearing slightly shaggy;

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

styles 2.5–3 mm, (shorter than mature fruits).

(sessile or substipitate, often reddish magenta), usually ovoid to subglobose, inflated, 4–6(–7) mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

septum perforate;

ovules 8–12 per ovary;

style 1.5–4 mm.

± flattened, convex on outer side.

somewhat flattened.

= 12.