Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple or few from base, prostrate to decumbent (arising laterally from a tuft of leaves, unbranched), 0.5–1.5 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).

blade suborbicular, deltate to rhombic, or elliptic, margins entire or sparsely dentate, 2–4(–6) cm.

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

(shortly petiolate);

blade oblanceolate to linear, 1–2(–3) cm, margins entire.

congested, (elongated moderately in fruit).

loose, (sometimes elongated).

sepals linear, 5–7 mm;

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

sepals lanceolate, 3.5–6(–8) mm;

petals obovate to oblanceolate, (5–)7–8.5(–10) mm.

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

(sigmoid), 5–10 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.

obcordate to truncate or obcompressed, slightly compressed (angustiseptate, inflated at lobe tips), 3–6mm (wider than long);

valves densely pubescent, trichomes appressed or slightly spreading; (septum usually fenestrate);

ovules 4–8 per ovary;

style (slender), 3–6.5 mm, (often pubescent).

slightly flattened.

flattened.

= 8.

= 10.