Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, decumbent, (unbranched, slender), 0.5–1 dm.

simple or few to several from base, erect, (unbranched, slender), 0.2–1(–1.5) dm.

(strongly rosulate);

blade usually oblanceolate or broader, sometimes triangular, 2–3.5 cm (width 5–10 mm), margins entire or with 1 or 2 broad teeth, (apex acute).

(densely tufted, not rosulate, reflexed in age);

blade obovate to oblanceolate, 0.7–2(–3) cm, margins usually entire, sometimes repand or shallowly dentate, (apex acute).

blade oblanceolate, 1–1.5 cm (width 2–4 mm), margins entire, (apex acute).

similar to basal, becoming narrower distally, somewhat reflexed, (distal) blade linear or narrowly oblanceolate, 0.5–2.5(–5.5) cm.

congested, (elongated moderately in fruit).

dense, often subcorymbiform.

sepals linear, 5–7 mm;

petals spatulate, 8–10 mm, (apex often somewhat truncate).

sepals (green or greenish yellow), ovate or broadly ovate, 3.5–6.5 mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, cucullate, median pair thickened, slightly cucullate apically);

petals (spreading), oblanceolate to obovate, 5.5–8(–10) mm, (claw erect).

(spreading, straight or somewhat sigmoid), 5–8 mm.

(erect or divaricate-spreading, straight or slightly curved), (3–)5–10(–15) mm.

(erect), didymous, suborbicular, inflated, 2–5(–8) × 4–8(–10)mm, (coriaceous, base slightly cordate or nearly obtuse, sinus obsolete or absent, apical sinus broad and deep);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), pubescent, trichomes appressed, (silvery on ovaries and immature fruit);

replum obovate to oblong, as wide as or wider than fruit, rarely somewhat constricted basally, apex obtuse;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 5–7 mm.

(sessile or substipitate), suborbicular to ovoid or ellipsoid, slightly inflated, 4–7 mm;

valves pubescent outside, trichomes substipitate, spreading, sometimes sparsely pubescent inside, trichomes sessile, smooth;

ovules 4–10(–16) per ovary;

style (0.5–)1–2(–4) mm (shorter than fruit).

slightly flattened.

flattened.

= 8.

= 10.