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.

1–5 from base, prostrate to slightly decumbent, (arising laterally, also erect or ascending from tuft of basal leaves, unbranched, purple-green), 0.08–0.3 dm.

similar to cauline, (erect, surfaces silvery).

(petiole slightly winged);

blade oblanceolate, elliptic, or rhombic, (mostly flat, sometimes somewhat folded), 0.6–2.7 cm, (base tapering to petiole), margins entire, (apex rounded to rounded-acute).

(ascending, subsessile);

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

(3–7, shortly petiolate or sessile);

blade elliptic to oblanceolate, 0.3–0.5 cm, margins entire.

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

crowded, (ca. 3–7 fruits).

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

petals spatulate, 5–6 mm.

sepals (greenish yellow), linear-triangular, 3.7–5 mm, (lateral pair subsaccate);

petals oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, 4.5–9 mm.

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

(ascending, straight), 1.8–3.4 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.

(shortly stipitate, purple or greenish purple in age), slightly didymous, ovoid to obpyriform, 3–5 mm (wider than long, base rounded-obtuse, apex rounded, flattened, or slightly emarginate);

valves (inflated, slightly wider than replum), pubescent, trichomes scattered;

replum obovate to orbicular-obdeltate, apex rounded, obtuse, or truncate;

septum complete or medially small-perforate;

ovules 4–6(–8) per ovary;

style 2–3.6 mm.

plump.

relatively plump, (ovate to suborbicular, usually rounded on one side, ± flat or concave on the other, not mucilaginous when wetted).