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, (unbranched, mostly filiform, slender), 1–1.5 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).

(erect, petiole slender);

blades broadly ovate to elliptic, 0.5–1 cm, (base abruptly narrowing to petiole), margins entire.

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

(remote, distally shortly petiolate);

blade ± spatulate, (base cuneate), margins entire.

loose, (elongated in fruit).

lax, (elongated, few-flowered).

sepals linear-oblong, 4–7.5 mm;

petals spatulate, 6–11 mm.

sepals (erect), oblong, 3.5–4 mm, (lateral pair not saccate);

petals (often fading to light purple apically), spatulate to nearly lingulate, 6–7 mm.

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

(recurved to widely spreading, filiform, slender), 5–10 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.

(pendent), globose or subglobose, compressed, 3–4 mm;

valves ± densely pubescent;

ovules 6–10 per ovary;

style ca. 1.5 mm.

(dark brown), flattened, (2–3 mm).

not seen.

= 10, 16, 24.