Flora of North America species comparison

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

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

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

(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).

blade spatulate, similar to basal.

blade nearly linear, to 1.5 cm, margins entire.

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

dense, (subcorymbose).

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

petals spatulate to oblanceolate, 4–6.5 mm.

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

(recurved), 5–8 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).

(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, convex on outer side.

plump, (mucilaginous when wetted).