Flora of North America species comparison

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

few to several from base, erect, (from basal leaf cluster, branched distally, flowering branches slender, subtended by bracts), 3–6 dm.

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

blade oblanceolate or broadly obovate, to 10 cm, margins usually sinuate-dentate or entire, sometimes lobed.

blade linear-oblanceolate, similar to basal.

(proximal shortly petiolate, distal sessile);

blade oblanceolate to narrowly oblong, similar to basal, (distal with base slightly cuneate).

dense (distally, subumbellate).

paniculate, (rachises and pedicels more densely pubescent than proximal leaves).

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

petals lingulate to spatulate, 4–7 mm.

sepals elliptic, 3–7 mm, (median pair slightly thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (white), broadly ovate, to 12 mm, (narrowing gradually to short claw).

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

(widely divaricate-ascending and straight, or slightly recurved), 10–15 mm, (slender, 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.

(widely spreading to nearly pendent in age, shortly stipitate), globose or subglobose, not or slightly inflated, 3–10 mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 8–12 per ovary;

style ca. 2 mm, (slender, fragile).

plump.

flattened.

= 10.

= 12.