Flora of North America species comparison

blades spatulate, oblanceolate, or oblong, (4–)5–12(–15) cm × 10–30 mm, apex obtuse, surfaces usually pubescent, rarely glabrous.

blade lanceolate, oblong-elliptic, or ovate, 2–9(–12) cm × (5–)10–25(–40) mm, apex acute.

usually sessile, rarely petiolate or subsessile;

blade base auriculate or not, margins usually entire, sometimes dentate or, rarely, lyrate.

ebracteate [bracteate], often elongated in fruit.

sepals (2.5–)3–5 × 0.5–1.2 mm, glabrous;

petals 5–8.5 × 1.3–1.7 mm;

filaments slender, median pairs 3.5–6.5 mm, lateral pair 2.5–4.5 mm;

anthers 0.7–1.5 mm.

actinomorphic;

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

petals [absent] white, yellow, pink, lavender, or purple [orange], claw present, often distinct;

filaments unappendaged, not winged;

pollen 3-colpate.

appressed to rachis, (6–)7–16(–20) mm, glabrous.

(3–)4–10(–12.5) cm × 0.7–1.5 mm;

style 0.5–0.8(–1) mm.

silicles or siliques, dehiscent or indehiscent, unsegmented, terete, latiseptate, or angustiseptate;

ovules 2–200[–numerous] per ovary;

style often distinct;

stigma usually entire [2-lobed (subentire in Turritis)].

0.6–1.2 × 0.5–0.9 mm.

biseriate or uniseriate [aseriate];

cotyledons accumbent or incumbent.

stalked or sessile, stellate, dendritic, or forked, sometimes mixed with simple ones.

= 12, 16, 32.