Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, erect, (unbranched, slender), 0.1–0.6 dm.

blade rhombic to obovate, 2–4 cm, margins entire.

blade linear-oblanceolate, similar to basal.

petiolate, sessile, or subsessile;

blade base usually not auriculate (except Paysonia), margins entire, dentate, or sinuate.

dense (distally, subumbellate).

ebracteate, often elongated in fruit.

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

petals lingulate to spatulate, 4–7 mm.

actinomorphic;

sepals erect, spreading, ascending, or reflexed, lateral pair seldom saccate basally;

petals white, yellow, lavender, purple, violet, orange, or brown [pink], claw present, often distinct;

filaments unappendaged, not winged;

pollen (3 or) 4–11-colpate.

(divaricate-ascending), 3–5 mm, (densely pubescent).

(erect), ovate to suborbicular, compressed apically (latiseptate), 3–4 mm;

valves pubescent;

replum ovate to obovate;

ovules 4–6 per ovary;

style 2–3 mm.

silicles or siliques, dehiscent, unsegmented, terete, latiseptate, or angustiseptate;

ovules 2–100 per ovary;

style usually distinct;

stigma entire or strongly 2-lobed.

plump.

biseriate, uniseriate, or aseriate;

cotyledons accumbent or incumbent.

usually short-stalked, subsessile, or sessile, sometimes long-stalked, stellate, scalelike, subdendritic, or forked, sometimes mixed with simple ones.

= 10.