Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple from base, erect to decumbent, (slender), 0.6–1.5 dm.

(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.

blades obovate to deltate, 1.5–3(–4) cm, margins entire or outer one with 1 or 2 broad teeth.

(1–5);

blade oblanceolate, 1–2.5 cm, margins entire.

blade oblanceolate to spatulate, 0.6–1.5 cm, margins entire.

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

loose.

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

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

sepals (green-yellow, often tinged with purple), elliptic, 3–4.6 mm;

petals oblanceolate, 6–8 mm (claw expanded).

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

(sigmoid), 5–9 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).

(depressed), broadly obovate, compressed (angustiseptate), 2–4 mm, (apex slightly bilobed to nearly truncate);

valves densely pubescent, trichomes strongly ascending, spreading, long, (appearing fuzzy), pubescent inside;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 3–4 mm, (pubescent or glabrous).

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

flattened.