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.

several from base, prostrate to decumbent, 0.3–1 dm.

similar to cauline, (erect, surfaces silvery).

(rosulate; petiole winged);

blade orbicular to broadly obovate, 1.5–3 cm, margins entire or with broad, obscure toothlike angles each side at apex, (apex obtuse, surfaces densely pubescent, trichomes appressed).

(ascending, subsessile);

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

blade broadly spatulate to linear-oblanceolate, 1–1.5 cm, margins entire.

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

condensed, (subumbellate to slightly more elongated, few-flowered).

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

petals spatulate, 5–6 mm.

sepals (yellowish, often with some purple), narrowly lanceolate, 5–6 mm;

petals spatulate, 7.3–9.2 mm, (not clawed).

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

(divaricate-ascending, straight to slightly curved), 6–10 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, suborbicular, deeply bilobed, inflated in age, 10–12 × 12–15 mm, (papery, basal sinus absent or obsolete, apical sinus deep);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), densely pubescent, trichomes spreading, (ovaries and immature fruit downy);

replum narrowly ovate to broadly oblong, not narrowed at middle, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex acute to obtuse;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 3–7 mm.

plump.

flattened.