Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple or few to several from base, erect, (often distal 1/2 branched), to 6 dm.

(erect);

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

blade oblanceolate, to 9 cm, margins entire, dentate, or sinuate to lyrate-pinnatifid.

blade linear, similar to basal.

(proximal shortly petiolate, distal sessile);

blade narrowly elliptic to linear, 2–4(–6) cm, margins entire or repand to shallowly dentate.

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 elliptic or elongate-ovate, 3.4–5.2(–6.5) mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals obovate or deltate, 5–10 mm, (sometimes with short claw, margins undulate).

(ascending, curved), 3–5.5 mm.

(divaricate-ascending to widely spreading, straight), 8–20 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).

globose or subglobose, sometimes slightly compressed, 3–6 mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), densely papillose, densely pubescent inside, trichomes raised;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 8–18 per ovary;

style 1.5–3.5 mm.

plump, (oblong).

flattened.

= 12.