Flora of North America species comparison

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

several from base, erect or outer decumbent, (often several-branched, branches slender and flexuous), to 8 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 pinnatisect to repand, 3–9(–14) cm, margins entire.

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

(sometimes secund, proximal usually petiolate, distal sessile);

blade elliptic, 1–6 cm, (distal with cuneate base), margins entire or deeply dentate.

congested, (elongated moderately in fruit).

dense.

sepals linear, 5–7 mm;

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

sepals elliptic to oblong, 3–5.5 mm, (median pair slightly thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (sometimes drying slightly purplish), suborbicular or broadly ovate, 4.5–7(–9) mm, (narrowing gradually to short claw).

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

(horizontal or recurved and ascending at tip, sometimes loosely sigmoid), (5–)10–20 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.

globose or broadly ellipsoid, not or slightly inflated, (4–)5–8 mm, (smooth);

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules (8–)12–16(–20) per ovary;

style (1.5–)2–3(–4) mm.

slightly flattened.

flattened.

= 8.

= 12.