Flora of North America species comparison

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

unbranched or branched distally, 1.2–6 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).

not rosulate; shortly petiolate;

blade lanceolate to oblanceolate, 2–8 cm, margins coarsely dentate to pinnatifid.

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).

blade lanceolate, 1.3–9 cm × 2–20 mm, (smaller distally), base auriculate, margins dentate.

ebracteate, (lax in fruit).

ebracteate, (lax, with a terminal cluster of dark purple or greenish yellow sterile flowers).

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.

calyx campanulate;

sepals (of fertile flowers) dark purple, purplish, or greenish yellow, (oblong to lanceolate), 4–6 mm, (8–14 mm in sterile flowers), not or slightly keeled, (hirsute-hispid in fertile flowers, glabrous in sterile flowers);

petals: (abaxial pair spreading and reflexed, adaxial pair parallel and erect), purplish white, lemon-yellow, or yellowish white (with darker midvein), 7–12 mm, blade 2–4 × 1–2 mm, margins crisped, claw 5–8 mm, about as wide as blade;

stamens in 3 unequal pairs;

filaments: abaxial pair (distinct), 4–6 mm, lateral pair 3–4 mm, adaxial pair (connate their entire length), 6–9 mm;

anthers: abaxial and lateral pairs fertile, 1.3–2 mm, adaxial pairs sterile, 0.2–0.7 mm;

gynophore 0.4–1 mm.

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

divaricate to ascending, (straight, curved upward, or recurved), 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.

ascending or reflexed, smooth, straight or slightly curved, flattened, 3.5–11.4 cm × 1.5–2 mm;

valves each with prominent midvein, (glabrate or sparsely to densely hispid, trichomes to 1.7 mm);

replum straight;

ovules 32–94 per ovary;

style 1–2 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).

broadly oblong, 1.4–2 × 1–1.3 mm;

wing 0.15–0.3 mm wide, continuous.

= 28, 56.