Flora of North America species comparison

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

several from base, decumbent, (unbranched, slender), 0.5–1 dm.

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

(strongly rosulate);

blade usually oblanceolate or broader, sometimes triangular, 2–3.5 cm (width 5–10 mm), margins entire or with 1 or 2 broad teeth, (apex acute).

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

blade oblanceolate, 1–1.5 cm (width 2–4 mm), margins entire, (apex acute).

loose.

congested, (elongated moderately in fruit).

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

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

sepals linear, 5–7 mm;

petals spatulate, 8–10 mm, (apex often somewhat truncate).

(sigmoid), 5–9 mm.

(spreading, straight or somewhat sigmoid), 5–8 mm.

(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).

(erect), didymous, suborbicular, inflated, 2–5(–8) × 4–8(–10)mm, (coriaceous, base slightly cordate or nearly obtuse, sinus obsolete or absent, apical sinus broad and deep);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), pubescent, trichomes appressed, (silvery on ovaries and immature fruit);

replum obovate to oblong, as wide as or wider than fruit, rarely somewhat constricted basally, apex obtuse;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 5–7 mm.

flattened.

slightly flattened.

= 8.