Flora of North America species comparison

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

few from base, erect with outer usually decumbent, 1–3.5(–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).

(erect);

blade narrowly lanceolate to linear or (outer) oblanceolate, (1–)2–6(–9) cm, margins usually entire, rarely shallowly dentate, (inner involute, outer usually flat, base usually with some simple trichomes).

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

blade narrowly oblanceolate to linear, (1–)2–4(–8) cm, margins flat or involute.

congested, (elongated moderately in fruit).

compact, (elongated and loose in fruit, densely-flowered).

sepals linear, 5–7 mm;

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

sepals oblong to broadly elliptic, 4–7(–8) mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, median pair cucullate);

petals oblanceolate or obovate, (5–)6.5–9.5(–11) mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade, or blade gradually narrowed to claw).

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

(usually recurved), (5–)10–20(–25) 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.

subglobose or obovoid, usually inflated, sometimes slightly compressed, (3–)4–6 mm;

valves densely pubescent, trichomes spreading, usually pubescent inside, trichomes appressed, sessile;

ovules (4–)8–12(–16) per ovary;

style 3–4.5(–6.5) mm.

slightly flattened.

slightly flattened.

= 8.

= 10, 20, 30.