Flora of North America species comparison

unbranched or branched distally, 3–10 dm.

unbranched or branched distally, 3.5–8 dm.

(soon withered);

not rosulate;

blade oblong to lanceolate or oblanceolate, 3–6 cm × 5–15 mm, margins usually entire, rarely denticulate.

(soon withered);

not rosulate;

petiole (winged), 0.5–3.5 cm;

blade pandurate to broadly obovate, 2–10 cm × 10–50 mm, margins entire or repand.

sessile;

blade (proximalmost) oblong to lanceolate or oblanceolate, or (distal) linear to narrowly oblong or lanceolate, base auriculate, margins usually entire, rarely denticulate.

(proximalmost) petiolate or (distal) sessile;

blade (proximalmost) pandurate to broadly obovate or (distal) obovate, base auriculate, margins entire or repand.

lax.

lax.

sepals spreading, whitish or purplish, 1.8–2.5 × 0.7–1 mm;

petals white, obovate to spatulate, 2.5–4.5 × 1.7–2.5 mm, claw 1–1.5 mm;

median filament pairs 1.7–2.5 mm;

anthers ovate, 0.5–0.8 mm;

gynophore 0.2–0.4 mm.

sepals erect, purplish, 2.5–3.5 × 0.7–1 mm;

petals white, narrowly oblanceolate, 3.5–4.5 × 1–1.2 mm, claw not developed;

median filament pairs 1.5–2.5 mm;

anthers ovate-oblong, 0.7–1 mm;

gynophore 0.2–0.4 mm.

horizontal to divaricate, straight or slightly recurved, (slender), 7–15 mm.

often divaricate, sometimes ascending, straight, 4–13 mm.

erect to ascending, straight or curved, strongly torulose, 1.5–2.5 cm × 1–1.2 mm;

ovules 20–32 per ovary;

style cylindrical, 0.5–0.8 mm;

stigma obscurely 2-lobed.

divaricate to ascending, straight or curved, obscurely torulose, 3.2–7.5 cm × 0.9–1.2 mm;

ovules 60–102 per ovary;

style subclavate, 0.4–2.5 mm;

stigma entire.

1–1.5 × 0.7–0.9 mm.

0.9–1.1 × 0.5–0.7 mm.

= 20.