Flora of North America species comparison

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

1–5 from base, prostrate to slightly decumbent, (arising laterally, also erect or ascending from tuft of basal leaves, unbranched, purple-green), 0.08–0.3 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).

(petiole slightly winged);

blade oblanceolate, elliptic, or rhombic, (mostly flat, sometimes somewhat folded), 0.6–2.7 cm, (base tapering to petiole), margins entire, (apex rounded to rounded-acute).

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

(3–7, shortly petiolate or sessile);

blade elliptic to oblanceolate, 0.3–0.5 cm, margins entire.

loose, (elongated in fruit).

crowded, (ca. 3–7 fruits).

sepals linear-oblong, 4–7.5 mm;

petals spatulate, 6–11 mm.

sepals (greenish yellow), linear-triangular, 3.7–5 mm, (lateral pair subsaccate);

petals oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, 4.5–9 mm.

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

(ascending, straight), 1.8–3.4 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.

(shortly stipitate, purple or greenish purple in age), slightly didymous, ovoid to obpyriform, 3–5 mm (wider than long, base rounded-obtuse, apex rounded, flattened, or slightly emarginate);

valves (inflated, slightly wider than replum), pubescent, trichomes scattered;

replum obovate to orbicular-obdeltate, apex rounded, obtuse, or truncate;

septum complete or medially small-perforate;

ovules 4–6(–8) per ovary;

style 2–3.6 mm.

(dark brown), flattened, (2–3 mm).

relatively plump, (ovate to suborbicular, usually rounded on one side, ± flat or concave on the other, not mucilaginous when wetted).

= 10, 16, 24.