Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, prostrate to decumbent, 0.3–1 dm.

several from base, (slender), erect or outer decumbent, (usually branched, branches filiform, bud clusters of growing plants drooping), to 2.5 dm.

(rosulate; petiole winged);

blade orbicular to broadly obovate, 1.5–3 cm, margins entire or with broad, obscure toothlike angles each side at apex, (apex obtuse, surfaces densely pubescent, trichomes appressed).

blade orbicular to broadly spatulate, 1–2.4 cm, margins entire or sinuate.

blade broadly spatulate to linear-oblanceolate, 1–1.5 cm, margins entire.

(proximal often petiolate, distal sessile);

similar to basal, blade spatulate to oblanceolate or (distal) linear, (base cuneate), margins entire or sinuate.

condensed, (subumbellate to slightly more elongated, few-flowered).

loose.

sepals (yellowish, often with some purple), narrowly lanceolate, 5–6 mm;

petals spatulate, 7.3–9.2 mm, (not clawed).

sepals oblong or elliptic, 2.5–4.6 mm, (median pair slightly thickened apically);

petals (pale yellow), spatulate to obovate, 5–9 mm, (apex ± emarginate).

(divaricate-ascending, straight to slightly curved), 6–10 mm.

(usually divaricate-ascending, straight or slightly curved), 7–11 mm.

didymous, irregular, suborbicular, deeply bilobed, inflated in age, 10–12 × 12–15 mm, (papery, basal sinus absent or obsolete, apical sinus deep);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), densely pubescent, trichomes spreading, (ovaries and immature fruit downy);

replum narrowly ovate to broadly oblong, not narrowed at middle, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex acute to obtuse;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 3–7 mm.

(sessile or shortly stipitate), globose, not inflated, 3–4 mm;

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

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 3–5 mm.

flattened.

flattened.

= 14.