Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple or few to several from base, prostrate, (from below a terminal rosette of leaves, unbranched), 0.2–0.5 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 elliptic to broadly ovate or obovate, (1–)1.5–2.5(–3) cm, margins entire, (apex obtuse).

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

blade spatulate, 3–7 mm, (base cuneate), margins entire.

congested, (elongated moderately in fruit).

not loose, (scarcely elongated in fruit, 3–5-flowered).

sepals linear, 5–7 mm;

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

sepals (yellow-green), narrowly elliptic to narrowly long-triangular, 3.7–5 mm;

petals oblanceolate to nearly obovate, 7–8.5 mm, (abruptly tapering to narrow claw).

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

(straight or slightly curved).

(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.

wider than long, apex truncate to shallowly notched, compressed (angustiseptate), 3–4 mm;

valves densely pubescent, trichomes ascending to erect, sparsely pubescent inside;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 2–3 mm.

slightly flattened.

plump, (slightly compressed).

= 8.