Flora of North America species comparison

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

several from base, ± erect, exceeding basal rosette by ± 0.5 dm.

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

(forming a strong rosette; long-petiolate);

blade oblanceolate to ovate or orbicular, (1.5–)2–4(–8) cm, (base usually abruptly tapering to petiole), margins entire.

blade linear-oblanceolate, similar to basal.

blade oblanceolate, 1–2 cm, margin entire, (apex acute).

dense (distally, subumbellate).

congested, (greatly exceeding leaves).

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

petals lingulate to spatulate, 4–7 mm.

sepals often keeled, 6–8 mm;

petals spatulate, 8–10 mm.

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

(spreading, straight or slightly curved), 7–11 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.

didymous, highly inflated, 8–22 × 10–25 mm, (papery, basal and apical sinuses deep);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), densely pubescent, trichomes appressed;

replum linear to oblong, as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 8 per ovary;

style 7–9 mm.

plump.

flattened.

= 10.

= 16.