Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple from base, erect to decumbent, (unbranched, mostly filiform, slender), 1–1.5 dm.

(petiole slender);

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

(erect, petiole slender);

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

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

(remote, distally shortly petiolate);

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

subcorymbose.

lax, (elongated, few-flowered).

sepals oblong, 8–10 mm;

petals spatulate, 12–14 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, straight), 5–10 mm.

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

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.

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

valves ± densely pubescent;

ovules 6–10 per ovary;

style ca. 1.5 mm.

flattened, (2–3 mm).

not seen.

= 48–52, 52, 64, 67–70.