Flora of North America species comparison

(sometimes ascending), unbranched or branched (few), 1.5–8(–9.2) dm.

subrosulate (in juvenile plants); shortly petiolate;

blade obovate, 1–2.7 cm (5–14 mm wide), margins dentate apically (teeth with relatively short, bristly trichomes).

blade (fleshy), broadly ovate to orbicular, 0.7–3.5 cm × 5–24 mm (not smaller distally), base auriculate to amplexicaul, (proximally overlapping, distally not overlapping), margins usually entire, (apex obtuse).

ebracteate, (lax in fruit).

calyx campanulate;

sepals (ascending), yellowish green (in bud) or purple (in flower), (ovate), 4–7 mm, not keeled, (apex with short, bristly, flattened trichomes);

petals purplish (with darker veins), 5–9 mm, blade 0.5–3 × 0.3–0.7 mm, margins slightly crisped, claw 4–7 mm, wider than blade;

stamens in 3 unequal pairs;

filaments (distinct): abaxial pair 4–6 mm, lateral pair 3–5 mm, adaxial pair 5–7 mm;

anthers (all) fertile, 2.5–3.5 mm;

gynophore 1–3 mm.

erect to ascending, (straight), 3–8 mm.

erect to ascending, smooth, often strongly recurved distally, distinctly flattened, 2–7(–8.2) cm × 2–3 mm;

valves each with obscure midvein (sometimes not basally, margins somewhat thickened);

replum straight;

ovules 16–30 per ovary;

style 0.4–1 mm;

stigma entire.

oblong to broadly ovoid, 3–4 × 1.7–2 mm;

wing (0–)0.1–0.25 mm wide at apex, (narrower at margin).

= 28, 56.