Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple or few to several from base, erect, (often distal 1/2 branched), to 6 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 oblanceolate, to 9 cm, margins entire, dentate, or sinuate to lyrate-pinnatifid.

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

(proximal shortly petiolate, distal sessile);

blade narrowly elliptic to linear, 2–4(–6) cm, margins entire or repand to shallowly dentate.

congested, (elongated moderately in fruit).

loose.

sepals linear, 5–7 mm;

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

sepals elliptic or elongate-ovate, 3.4–5.2(–6.5) mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals obovate or deltate, 5–10 mm, (sometimes with short claw, margins undulate).

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

(divaricate-ascending to widely spreading, straight), 8–20 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 subglobose, sometimes slightly compressed, 3–6 mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), densely papillose, densely pubescent inside, trichomes raised;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 8–18 per ovary;

style 1.5–3.5 mm.

slightly flattened.

flattened.

= 8.

= 12.