Flora of North America species comparison

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

few to several from base, erect or outer ones decumbent, 0.5–4 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).

(long-petiolate);

blade elliptic to obovate or rhombic, 2–6(–9) cm, margins entire.

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

(sessile or shortly petiolate);

blade oblanceolate to spatulate, 1–3 cm, (proximal broader), margins entire.

congested, (elongated moderately in fruit).

dense, (relatively short).

sepals linear, 5–7 mm;

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

sepals elliptic or narrowly oblong, 4–5.4 mm, (tapered to apex);

petals (white, base and claw yellow, conspicuously purple-veined), usually broadly obovate or rhombic, 6–10 mm, (± equal to blade, tapering to slender claw).

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

(erect to spreading, ascending, or (proximal) horizontal, straight to slightly curved, sometimes loosely sigmoid), 6–12(–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.

(sessile or substipitate, often reddish magenta), usually ovoid to subglobose, inflated, 4–6(–7) mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

septum perforate;

ovules 8–12 per ovary;

style 1.5–4 mm.

slightly flattened.

somewhat flattened.

= 8.

= 12.