Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple from base, prostrate to decumbent, (unbranched, from within and below leaf clusters, slender), 0.2–0.8 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).

(tufted, erect or ascending, silvery);

blade linear to oblanceolate or (outer) oblanceolate to obovate or rhombic, 1.5–3.3 cm, (base sometimes subhastate), margins entire or dentate, (often involute).

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

blade nearly linear, to 1.5 cm, margins entire.

congested, (elongated moderately in fruit).

dense, (subcorymbose).

sepals linear, 5–7 mm;

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

sepals (yellow-green), lanceolate, (2.5–)3.5–4.5 mm;

petals spatulate to oblanceolate, 4–6.5 mm.

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

(recurved), 5–8 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.

(usually pendent), obdeltate, compressed (angustiseptate), 2–4 mm, (wider than long, base tapered to acute angle, apex truncate with inflated shoulders);

valves densely pubescent; (septum obsolete or with a narrow fringe inside of replum, funicles attached close to replum apex);

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 2–4 mm, (slender).

slightly flattened.

plump, (mucilaginous when wetted).

= 8.