Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple from base, erect, (unbranched, sparsely leaved), to 7 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 or obovate to oblong, 4–15 cm, margins entire, dentate, or lyrate-pinnatifid.

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

(proximal often narrowed to short petiole, distal sessile);

blade broadly elliptic to obovate or rhombic, 0.5–3(–5) cm, margins entire.

congested, (elongated moderately in fruit).

dense or slightly elongated.

sepals linear, 5–7 mm;

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

sepals elliptic to ovate, 3.5–6(–7) mm, (median pair usually thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (white, often purple-veined, fading purplish), suborbicular to obovate, obdeltate, or cuneate, 4.5–10(–12) mm, (often narrowed to broad claw, apex emarginate, less frequently claw undifferentiated from blade).

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

(spreading or recurved, loosely sigmoid), 5–25 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.

(pendent or horizontal, sessile or substipitate), subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, not or slightly inflated, (4–)5–8 mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous throughout;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 4–8(–12) per ovary;

style 1–3(–4) mm.

slightly flattened.

flattened.

= 8.

= 18, 36.