Flora of North America species comparison

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

blade (ovate to lanceolate), margins usually sinuately or crenately lobed, rarely pinnatisect.

(shortly petiolate or sessile);

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

often 3+ dm;

rachis straight.

sepals 3.5–5 mm, lateral pair saccate basally;

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

1.5–4 mm.

(slenderly) lanceoloid, 19–31 mm, usually not constricted at articulation;

terminal segment at least 2 times length of proximal, apex acute to blunt, relatively long.

(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 or, occasionally, incumbent.

= 18.