Flora of North America species comparison

few to several from base, ± erect, (arising laterally, also from within basal leaves), 0.2–0.4 dm.

several from base, (slender), erect or outer decumbent, (usually branched, branches filiform, bud clusters of growing plants drooping), to 2.5 dm.

(erect);

blade linear-oblanceolate, 1.2–2.8 cm, (base gradually narrowed to petiole), margins entire.

blade orbicular to broadly spatulate, 1–2.4 cm, margins entire or sinuate.

blade linear, similar to basal.

(proximal often petiolate, distal sessile);

similar to basal, blade spatulate to oblanceolate or (distal) linear, (base cuneate), margins entire or sinuate.

dense, (often subumbellate, not or barely exceeding basal leaves).

loose.

sepals (pale green-yellow), oblong to elliptic, 4–5 mm, (median pair usually thickened apically, cucullate);

petals lingulate, 6–9 mm.

sepals oblong or elliptic, 2.5–4.6 mm, (median pair slightly thickened apically);

petals (pale yellow), spatulate to obovate, 5–9 mm, (apex ± emarginate).

(ascending, curved), 3–5.5 mm.

(usually divaricate-ascending, straight or slightly curved), 7–11 mm.

lanceolate in outline, compressed (latiseptate) on margins and at apex, 4–5 mm;

valves pubescent, trichomes closely appressed;

ovules 8–12 per ovary;

style 3.5–4.5 mm (equaling or exceeding length of fruit, curved proximal to stigma).

(sessile or shortly stipitate), globose, not inflated, 3–4 mm;

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

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 3–5 mm.

plump, (oblong).

flattened.

= 14.