Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, usually decumbent to ascending, (arising laterally, unbranched, coarse), 1–2 dm.

simple or few to several from base, prostrate, (from below a terminal rosette of leaves, unbranched), 0.2–0.5 dm.

blade pandurate or obovate, 3–6 cm, margins usually deeply and broadly incised, rarely subentire, (apex obtuse).

blade elliptic to broadly ovate or obovate, (1–)1.5–2.5(–3) cm, margins entire, (apex obtuse).

blade oblanceolate to spatulate, similar to basal, (3–6 mm wide), margins entire, (apex often somewhat acute).

blade spatulate, 3–7 mm, (base cuneate), margins entire.

congested, (elongated in fruit).

not loose, (scarcely elongated in fruit, 3–5-flowered).

sepals oblong, 6–8 mm;

petals spatulate, to 10 mm.

sepals (yellow-green), narrowly elliptic to narrowly long-triangular, 3.7–5 mm;

petals oblanceolate to nearly obovate, 7–8.5 mm, (abruptly tapering to narrow claw).

(usually curving upward, sigmoid), 6–10 mm.

(straight or slightly curved).

didymous, irregular in shape, somewhat angular, inflated, 5–7 × 6–8 mm, (papery, often rigid, base obtuse or truncate, apical sinus broad, open and deep);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), pubescent, trichomes spreading, loose;

replum oblong, often constricted, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex obtuse;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 5–7 mm.

wider than long, apex truncate to shallowly notched, compressed (angustiseptate), 3–4 mm;

valves densely pubescent, trichomes ascending to erect, sparsely pubescent inside;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 2–3 mm.

flattened.

plump, (slightly compressed).

= 8, 16.