Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple from base, decumbent, (occasionally few-branched), 0.5–1.5(–2) 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 elliptic to broadly obovate, triangular, rhombic, or round, 1.5–3(–4) cm, margins often sinuate or shallowly lobed.

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

(sessile or shortly petiolate);

blade elliptic to oblanceolate to obovate, 0.5–1.5 cm, (base narrowed to petiole), margins entire.

congested, (elongated moderately in fruit).

compact to loose.

sepals linear, 5–7 mm;

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

sepals oblong to broadly elliptic, 4–7.5 mm, (lateral pair saccate or not);

petals spatulate, 7.5–10 mm.

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

(ascending or divaricate-spreading, straight to loosely sigmoid or curved), 4–10 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), elliptic, suborbicular, or oblong, strongly compressed (angustiseptate), 5–9 mm, (rounded to sharply keeled on 1 side, edges ± keeled);

valves: (margins covering replum edges or not), usually pubescent throughout or, rarely, glabrous inside;

ovules (4–)8–14(–16) per ovary;

style 2–4.5(–5) mm.

slightly flattened.

slightly flattened.

= 8.