Flora of North America species comparison

simple or few from base, decumbent to ascending, (arising laterally from a tight hemispherical tuft of leaves), to 0.15 dm.

simple from base, erect, (arising from a condensed rosette), to 1 dm.

similar to cauline, (erect, surfaces silvery).

(ascending or erect);

blade elliptic to oblanceolate to obovate, (usually curled from middle to apex), (1.5–)5–7 cm (width 12–20 mm), margins entire.

(ascending, subsessile);

blade linear-oblanceolate, (0.6–)0.8–1.3(–1.5) cm, margins entire, (apex acute to narrowly obtuse).

(1–5);

blade oblanceolate, 1–2.5 cm, margins entire.

strongly congested, (often sessile or nearly so, lateral to leaves).

compact (or elongated in fruit, to 1 dm, barely exceeding leaves).

sepals (loosely erect), narrowly oblong, 3–4 mm;

petals spatulate, 5–6 mm.

sepals (erect), oblong to linear or spatulate, 5.5–7 mm;

petals spatulate, 10–14 mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade).

(erect or ascending, straight to slightly curved), 3–6 mm.

(divaricate-ascending, slightly curved), 7–18 mm.

ovate, compressed (latiseptate) on margins and apically, 4–5 mm;

valves pubescent, trichomes densely appressed;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 1–1.5 mm.

didymous, irregular, highly inflated, 8–11(–18) × 10–15 mm, (papery, basal sinus shallower than the deep apical sinus; valves retaining seeds after dehiscence);

replum obovate, not constricted, 1–1.8 mm, apex obtuse, as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules (4–)8(–12) per ovary;

style 4–6 mm, (glabrous).

plump.

flattened, (oblong to elliptic, thin-margined or not).