Flora of North America species comparison

few to several from base, ascending or prostrate, (arising laterally, also from within basal leaves, usually unbranched, rarely branched), 0.5–3(–6) dm.

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

blade narrowly oblanceolate or broadly elliptic, 1–7(–12) cm, margins entire or shallowly toothed, sometimes repand, (inner blades usually flattened in age, surfaces often gray-green, scabrous).

(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).

(usually secund);

blade spatulate or obovate, 1–2.5(–4.5) cm, margins entire or shallowly toothed, (flat or involute).

blade nearly linear, to 1.5 cm, margins entire.

somewhat crowded (to moderately elongated in fruit, exceeding basal leaves).

dense, (subcorymbose).

sepals broadly elliptic or oblong, 4–7.5(–9) mm, (median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals cuneate or obovate, 7–10(–16) mm, (tapering gradually to broad claw).

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

petals spatulate to oblanceolate, 4–6.5 mm.

(often divaricate-spreading and straight, or horizontal and loosely sigmoid, sometimes slightly recurved), 5–15 mm.

(recurved), 5–8 mm.

subglobose to ovoid or ellipsoid, sometimes compressed, (4–)5–7(–9) mm;

valves sparsely pubescent, trichomes appressed or erect, sometimes sparsely pubescent inside;

ovules (8–)12–16(–20) per ovary;

style 2–7 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).

somewhat flattened.

plump, (mucilaginous when wetted).

= 10 + 2, 18, 20, ± 40.