Flora of North America species comparison

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

several from base, prostrate, (slender, sparsely pubescent), 0.5–2 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).

blade obovate to narrowly elliptic, 1.5–6 cm, margins usually entire, rarely shallowly dentate, (surfaces densely pubescent, often silvery).

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

blade oblanceolate to spatulate, 0.5–1 cm, margins entire, (surfaces often sparsely pubescent).

loose, (elongated in fruit).

(narrow), loose, (elongated in fruit).

sepals linear-oblong, 4–7.5 mm;

petals spatulate, 6–11 mm.

sepals (greenish brown, sometimes magenta), linear or elliptic, 4.3–6(–7.5) mm, (median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (frequently pink or magenta in distal 1/3–1/2), spatulate to oblanceolate, 6–10(–12) mm, (claw undifferentiated from blade).

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

(ascending to somewhat spreading, straight to slightly curved), 4–8(–12) 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.

broadly ovoid to suborbicular, inflated, (terete or, often, slightly angustiseptate), 3–6mm;

valves sparsely pubescent;

ovules usually 4, rarely 6–8 per ovary;

style 3–6.5 mm.

(dark brown), flattened, (2–3 mm).

plump.

= 10, 16, 24.