Flora of North America species comparison

several from base, decumbent to ascending, (unbranched), 0.5–1.5 dm.

simple or few from base, prostrate or straggling to erect, (sometimes purplish, usually unbranched), (0.5–)1–2(–3) dm.

(petiole slender);

blade obovate, 3–5 cm (width 10–20 mm, base tapering abruptly to petiole), margins entire, (apex rarely slightly acute).

blade oblanceolate, 1.5–5(–7) cm, margins entire or shallowly dentate, (flat).

blade oblanceolate, 0.5–1.5 cm (width 3–5 mm), margins entire.

blade elliptic to linear, (0.5–)1–2.5(–3) cm, margins usually entire.

subcorymbose.

(secund), dense, (elongated in fruit).

sepals oblong, 8–10 mm;

petals spatulate, 12–14 mm.

sepals elliptic or oblong, 4–6(–7) mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, median pair thickened apically, cucullate);

petals (often red or lavender when dried), obovate, 6–8.5(–9.5) mm, (narrowing to broad claw).

(divaricate, straight), 5–10 mm.

(usually sharply recurved, sometimes divaricate-spreading or nearly horizontal), 5–15(–20) mm, (stout).

didymous, mostly highly inflated (strongly flattened at least in 1/2 toward replum), 14–18 × 14–18 mm, (papery, basal sinus slightly notched, apical open, shallow);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), evenly pubescent;

replum lanceolate, 7–10 mm, width 1.5–2.5 mm, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex acute to acuminate;

ovules 8–10 per ovary;

style 5–7 mm.

subglobose, obovoid, or broadly ellipsoid, slightly inflated, (3.5–)4–5.5(–6.5) mm;

valves densely pubescent outside, trichomes spreading or closely appressed, rarely sparsely pubescent inside;

ovules (4–)8(–10) per ovary;

style (slender), 3–5.5(–6.5) mm.

flattened, (2–3 mm).

slightly flattened.

= 48–52, 52, 64, 67–70.