Flora of North America species comparison

simple or few from caudex, erect, branched (several) distally, (1.5–)2.5–5.5(–6.5) dm, densely pubescent throughout.

erect or decumbent, unbranched or branched distally.

basal and cauline; petiolate or sessile;

basal usually rosulate, petiolate, blade margins entire, dentate, or lyrate-pinnatifid, (apex obtuse to acute);

cauline sessile, blade (base attenuate, not auriculate), margins entire, subentire, dentate, or pinnatifid.

often rosulate;

petiole (1–)2–5(–7) cm;

blade spatulate to linear-oblanceolate, (1–)1.7–5 cm × (3–)4–9(–12) mm, margins entire or dentate, surfaces densely pubescent.

3–7 (widely spaced);

blade linear-oblanceolate, 2–7 cm × 1–5(–8) mm, margins usually entire, rarely minutely sparsely denticulate, apex obtuse, surfaces densely pubescent.

(corymbose, several-flowered), considerably elongated in fruit.

sepals 2.5–3 × 1–1.5 mm;

petals (4–)5–6.5(–7.5) × (1.2–)1.5–2(–2.2) mm;

filaments 1.5–3 mm;

anthers oblong, 0.6–0.8 mm.

sepals (erect), oblong;

petals white, oblanceolate-spatulate, (longer than sepals, claw obscurely differentiated from blade, apex rounded);

stamens slightly tetradynamous;

filaments not dilated basally, (slender);

anthers ovate or oblong, (apex obtuse);

nectar glands confluent, subtending bases of stamens.

(5–)8–14(–17) mm, densely pubescent.

ascending to subdivaricate, (straight), slender, (terete).

suberect, (not appressed to rachis), straight, slightly torulose, subterete, (1–)1.3–1.8(–2) cm × 0.8–1 mm;

valves each with obscure midvein on proximal 1/2, densely pubescent;

ovules 20–30 per ovary;

style 0.2–0.4 mm.

subsessile or shortly stipitate (gynophore less than 1 mm), linear, slightly to strongly torulose, subterete to strongly latiseptate;

valves each without midvein or with obscure one on proximal 1/2, sparsely to densely pubescent or glabrescent;

replum rounded;

septum complete;

ovules 12–30 per ovary; (style obsolete or distinct);

stigma capitate.

1–1.2 × 0.6–0.7 mm.

uniseriate, plump, not winged, oblong;

seed coat (minutely reticulate), not mucilaginous when wetted;

cotyledons incumbent.

= 7.