Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple or few from base, decumbent to ascending, (arising laterally from a tight hemispherical tuft of leaves), to 0.15 dm.

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

similar to cauline, (erect, surfaces silvery).

blade linear-oblanceolate, similar to basal.

(ascending, subsessile);

blade linear-oblanceolate, (0.6–)0.8–1.3(–1.5) cm, margins entire, (apex acute to narrowly obtuse).

dense (distally, subumbellate).

strongly congested, (often sessile or nearly so, lateral to leaves).

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

petals lingulate to spatulate, 4–7 mm.

sepals (loosely erect), narrowly oblong, 3–4 mm;

petals spatulate, 5–6 mm.

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

(erect or ascending, straight to slightly curved), 3–6 mm.

(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.

ovate, compressed (latiseptate) on margins and apically, 4–5 mm;

valves pubescent, trichomes densely appressed;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 1–1.5 mm.

plump.

plump.

= 10.