Flora of North America species comparison

few from base, decumbent, (arising laterally proximal to current season’s leaves), 0.3–0.8 dm.

simple or few to several from base, erect, (unbranched, slender), 0.2–1(–1.5) dm.

(petiole slender);

blade broadly obovate, or deltate to ovate or narrower, 1.5–3.5 cm, (base abruptly to gradually narrowed to petiole), margins entire or obscurely few-toothed, (apex usually obtuse, nearly acute in narrower leaves).

(densely tufted, not rosulate, reflexed in age);

blade obovate to oblanceolate, 0.7–2(–3) cm, margins usually entire, sometimes repand or shallowly dentate, (apex acute).

(2–5 per stem);

blade oblanceolate to spatulate, similar to basal, margins entire, (apex acute).

similar to basal, becoming narrower distally, somewhat reflexed, (distal) blade linear or narrowly oblanceolate, 0.5–2.5(–5.5) cm.

loose, (3–6-flowered).

dense, often subcorymbiform.

sepals narrowly oblong to linear, 7–9 mm;

petals (erect), spatulate, 10–12(–15) mm.

sepals (green or greenish yellow), ovate or broadly ovate, 3.5–6.5 mm, (lateral pair subsaccate, cucullate, median pair thickened, slightly cucullate apically);

petals (spreading), oblanceolate to obovate, 5.5–8(–10) mm, (claw erect).

(widely spreading to ascending, slightly curved or straight), 7–11 mm.

(erect or divaricate-spreading, straight or slightly curved), (3–)5–10(–15) mm.

(usually purplish in age), didymous, irregular and somewhat angular, not highly inflated, 4–11 × 10–13 mm, (coriaceous, papery, shallowly grooved distally and on sides, tapered and narrowed toward replum, base obtuse to truncate, apex with broad sinus to nearly truncate);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), densely pubescent, not silvery;

replum elliptic to obovate, as wide as or wider than fruit, base rounded, margins sparsely pubescent or glabrous, apex rounded (with funicles);

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 5–7 mm, (glabrous).

(sessile or substipitate), suborbicular to ovoid or ellipsoid, slightly inflated, 4–7 mm;

valves pubescent outside, trichomes substipitate, spreading, sometimes sparsely pubescent inside, trichomes sessile, smooth;

ovules 4–10(–16) per ovary;

style (0.5–)1–2(–4) mm (shorter than fruit).

flattened.

flattened.

= 10.