Flora of North America species comparison

branched basally and distally, (1.4–)2–5(–6) dm, (glabrous or sparsely pubescent basally).

rosulate;

petiole 0.5–4 cm;

blade oblanceolate, 2–7 cm × 5–22 mm, margins irregularly dentate.

sessile;

blade lanceolate to oblong, (smaller distally), base auriculate, margins entire, (surfaces glabrous).

petiolate or sessile;

blade base auriculate or not, margins entire, dentate, or pinnately lobed.

dense.

usually ebracteate, often elongated in fruit.

sepals spreading to reflexed, yellow, 5–7.5(–8.5) × 1.7–2.5 mm;

petals yellow, spatulate to broadly oblong, 7–11(–13) × 2–3.5 mm, claw 5–7 mm (to 2 mm wide);

median filament pairs 5–6.5 mm;

anthers linear, 3–4 mm;

gynophore (slender), 2–6(–8) mm.

usually actinomorphic, rarely zygomorphic;

sepals erect, ascending, spreading, or reflexed, lateral pair saccate or not basally;

petals white, yellow, orange, pink, lilac, lavender, purple, green, brown, or nearly black, claw present, often distinct;

filaments unappendaged, not winged;

pollen 3-colpate.

divaricate-ascending, straight, (5–)6.6–13(–15) mm.

erect to divaricate-ascending, straight or slightly curved, torulose, 5–7.5(–9) cm × 1.2–1.7 mm;

ovules 72–98 per ovary;

style subclavate, 0.5–2 mm;

stigma 2-lobed.

usually siliques, rarely silicles, usually dehiscent, unsegmented, usually terete, 4-angled, or latiseptate;

ovules 1–210[–numerous] per ovary;

style obsolete, distinct, or absent;

stigma usually entire or 2-lobed (subentire in Sibaropsis, Streptanthella).

1.2–1.5 × 0.6–0.8 mm.

usually biseriate or uniseriate, rarely aseriate;

cotyledons accumbent or incumbent.

usually simple, rarely forked or dendritic [subdendritic], sometimes absent.

= 22.