Flora of North America species comparison

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

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

(erect);

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

(long-petiolate);

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

blade linear, similar to basal.

(sessile or shortly petiolate);

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

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

dense, (relatively short).

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

petals lingulate, 6–9 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).

(ascending, curved), 3–5.5 mm.

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

plump, (oblong).

somewhat flattened.

= 12.