Flora of North America species comparison

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

several from base, erect or outer ones decumbent or procumbent, (sometimes much-branched distally), to 6 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).

blade obovate or rhombic, to ca. 2.5 cm, margins usually shallowly dentate, sometimes lyrate-pinnatifid.

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

(proximal shortly petiolate, distal sessile);

blade obovate to rhombic or oblanceolate, 2–4(–6) cm, margins entire or shallowly and remotely dentate.

congested, (elongated moderately in fruit).

usually dense, (several-flowered).

sepals linear, 5–7 mm;

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

sepals ovate or oblong (tapering at base), 3.6–4.8(–5.3) mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals obovate to spatulate, 4.5–7.5 mm, (blade narrowed to broad claw, margins sinuate).

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

(strongly recurved), to 20 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.

(± pendent), ovoid, obcompressed, or globose, compressed, 4–6(–8) mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), sparsely pubescent or glabrous, sparsely pubescent inside;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules usually 4, rarely 6, per ovary;

style 2.5–3.6 mm.

slightly flattened.

flattened.

= 8.

= 14.