Flora of North America species comparison

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

few to several from base, ± erect, (arising laterally, also from within basal leaves), 0.2–0.4 dm.

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

(erect);

blade linear-oblanceolate, 1.2–2.8 cm, (base gradually narrowed to petiole), margins entire.

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

blade linear, similar to basal.

congested, (elongated in fruit).

dense, (often subumbellate, not or barely exceeding basal leaves).

sepals oblong, 6–8 mm;

petals spatulate, to 10 mm.

sepals (pale green-yellow), oblong to elliptic, 4–5 mm, (median pair usually thickened apically, cucullate);

petals lingulate, 6–9 mm.

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

(ascending, curved), 3–5.5 mm.

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.

lanceolate in outline, compressed (latiseptate) on margins and at apex, 4–5 mm;

valves pubescent, trichomes closely appressed;

ovules 8–12 per ovary;

style 3.5–4.5 mm (equaling or exceeding length of fruit, curved proximal to stigma).

flattened.

plump, (oblong).

= 8, 16.