Flora of North America species comparison

simple or few to several from base, erect, (sometimes branched), to 4 dm.

several from base, decumbent to erect or ascending (unbranched), 1–2.5 dm.

blade elliptic to rhombic, 3–8 cm, (base narrowing gradually to petiole), margins entire, repand, coarsely toothed, or pinnatifid.

(outer ones spreading, inner erect or ascending);

blade ovate, often broadly so, 4–7 cm, margins repand to lyrate-lobed.

(proximal often shortly petiolate, distal sessile);

blade linear or narrowly obovate, 1.5–6(–10) cm, margins entire, repand, or shallowly toothed.

similar to basal, blade oblanceolate or narrowly oblong, reduced in size, (base gibbous).

usually loose.

loose, (elongated).

sepals elliptic or ovate, 4–6 mm, (lateral pair usually subsaccate);

petals obovate to obdeltate, 6–10 mm, (apex often emarginate).

sepals lanceolate or narrowly oblong, 5.8–7.2 mm;

petals (erect, sometime purplish or drying purple), narrowly oblong to oblanceolate, 7–10 mm, (not or weakly clawed).

(usually divaricate, sometimes horizontal, straight or slightly curved), 8–20 mm.

(ascending to divaricate-ascending, sigmoid to nearly straight), 10–17 mm.

not didymous, ± globose, slightly inflated, 4–6 mm;

valves (not retaining seeds after dehiscence), glabrous throughout;

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 2–3.5 mm; (stigma expanded).

didymous, globose or subglobose, inflated, 10–13 mm, (papery, basal and apical sinuses deep);

valves (retaining seeds after dehiscence), pubescent, trichomes ascending, appearing fuzzy;

replum oblong to oblanceolate, as wide as or wider than fruit, apex obtuse;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style (4–)5–7 mm.

flattened, (margined).

plump, (suborbicular).

= 10.