Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, usually somewhat decumbent, (unbranched), (0.4–)0.5–2 dm.

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

(petiole slender, often narrowly winged);

blade obovate to orbicular or rhombic-orbicular, 2–9 cm, (base abruptly narrowed to petiole), margins usually entire, rarely with few scattered teeth, (apex rounded or obtuse, sometimes with apical mucro).

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

blade spatulate to oblanceolate, 1–3 cm, margins entire, (apex usually obtuse).

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

loose, (elongated in fruit).

loose.

sepals linear-oblong, 4–7.5 mm;

petals spatulate, 6–11 mm.

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

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

(divaricate, slightly sigmoid or nearly straight), 6–12 mm.

(sigmoid), 5–9 mm.

(erect), didymous, suborbicular, inflated, (4–)6–15 × (4–)8–20 mm, (papery, basal and apical sinuses similar, basal rarely shallower, apical deep, narrow and closed or nearly so);

valves retaining seeds after dehiscence, pubescent, trichomes appressed;

replum oblong, constricted, 2–3.5 mm, narrower than fruit, apex obtuse;

ovules (2 or) 4 per ovary;

style 4–6(–9) 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).

(dark brown), flattened, (2–3 mm).

flattened.

= 10, 16, 24.