Flora of North America species comparison

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

simple from base, erect to decumbent, (slender), 0.6–1.5 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).

blades obovate to deltate, 1.5–3(–4) cm, margins entire or outer one with 1 or 2 broad teeth.

(2–5 per stem);

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

blade oblanceolate to spatulate, 0.6–1.5 cm, margins entire.

loose, (3–6-flowered).

loose.

sepals narrowly oblong to linear, 7–9 mm;

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

sepals (green-yellow, often tinged with purple), elliptic, 3–4.6 mm;

petals oblanceolate, 6–8 mm (claw expanded).

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

(sigmoid), 5–9 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).

(depressed), broadly obovate, compressed (angustiseptate), 2–4 mm, (apex slightly bilobed to nearly truncate);

valves densely pubescent, trichomes strongly ascending, spreading, long, (appearing fuzzy), pubescent inside;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 3–4 mm, (pubescent or glabrous).

flattened.

flattened.