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.

several from base, erect, (unbranched), 0.2–0.3 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).

(few), similar to cauline.

(usually secund);

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

(petiole not differentiated from blade);

blade (somewhat succulent), linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 5–12 mm, margins entire.

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

dense, (few-flowered).

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 (yellowish), elliptic, 3–4.5 mm;

petals (erect or, more commonly, arching), spatulate to oblanceolate, 5.8–7 mm, (claw not or weakly differentiated from blade).

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

(ascending to divaricate-ascending, ± straight), 3.5–6 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.

(coppery or reddish brown in age), broadly ovoid, slightly inflated, 3–4 mm;

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

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style 1.8–3 mm.

somewhat flattened.

flattened.

= 10 + 2, 18, 20, ± 40.