Flora of North America species comparison

erect, (sometimes suffrutescent, much-branched), to 10 dm.

erect to prostrate, (much-branched), often 5+ dm.

blade broadly ovate or spatulate, margins sinuate, dentate, or pinnately lobed.

(shortly petiolate or sessile);

blade broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, or (distal) oblanceolate, (not especially fleshy, smaller distally), margins entire, dentate, or pinnatisect.

1–2 dm;

rachis geniculate.

often 3+ dm;

rachis straight.

sepals 3–4 mm, lateral pair not saccate basally;

petals white to pale lavender, 4–6.1 × 1.2–1.9 mm, claw distinct.

sepals 3.5–5 mm, lateral pair saccate basally;

petals usually white, rarely lavender, 4.9–9.4 × 3–4.5 mm, claw distinct.

(rachis of equal width), 2–5 mm, (widely spaced).

1.5–4 mm.

(8-ribbed), lanceoloid, 20–27 × 3–5 mm;

proximal segment terete, (6–11 mm);

terminal segment slenderly conical, (13–18 mm), apex acute to blunt, (often slightly curved).

(weakly 4-angled to terete, striate or sulcate), fusiform or lanceoloid [turbinate], 15–31 × 3–4 mm;

proximal segment terete, (5–10 mm);

terminal segment slenderly conical, (9–18 mm), apex usually acute.

cotyledons accumbent to obliquely incumbent.

cotyledons accumbent or, occasionally, incumbent.

= 18.